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

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

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

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.

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