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 Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

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

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

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

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.