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

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

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

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

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

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.

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.