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

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.

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

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

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

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

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