Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.