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.

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

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

There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

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

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