If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

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.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

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

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.

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