U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

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

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

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.

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

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.

What we do and say and show really matters.