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.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.

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.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.