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

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

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.

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 have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

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?

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