There are very few really stark black and white stories.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.

I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in a journalism context, and gravitas and coats and ties and haircuts and all that sort of stuff, I’ll leave to others. My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I’m very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.