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

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

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

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

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.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.