For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

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

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

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

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

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

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.