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.

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

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

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.

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.

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.