And I really believe good journalism is good business.

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

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

What we do and say and show really matters.

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.