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

Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

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.

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

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