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.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

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

Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

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.