I'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.

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

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

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

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

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.

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