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 believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

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.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

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

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.