No matter what the hocus-pocus focus groups tell you, time has proven that all the gimmicks and all the cheap journalism can only carry us so far.

What we do and say and show really matters.

That was seven years ago. I have been married two years and I have a five-month-old son now.

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

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Her nationalism was known far and wide during the war.

I’m not an American but I have always had the outsiders’ respect for the American people and the American way.

This was vintage Milosevic

And yet, the powers that be, the moneymen, have decided to eviscerate us.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

I think it [an attack] certainly will have an adverse effect on the Islamic world and also in the other parts,

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.

More times than I care to remember I have sympathized with too many of them assigned like myself, to some of the world’s royal bad places.

same kind of defiance as in his previous two appearances.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it’s okay to aim his gun at a child.

Sadly, marriage and motherhood have coincided with the demise of journalism as I knew it and I dreamt that it would always be.

They accused you of being in the KLA?

I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it’ll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.

It’s bigger, stronger and louder than last night,

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

I still have many years left in me, if I still have a job, but that’s what I’ll tell my son when he’s old enough to torture me with painful questions.

We will be correct all the way through and professional all the way through, but there is a very strong power behind us,

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Now that the tribunal has (former Yugoslav president Slobodan) Milosevic in the dock, the prosecutor (Carla del Ponte) is being more and more direct in her demands that the two most wanted suspects be brought...

I was showing a man and telling his story and explaining how ill he was, and it was a live camera and all of a sudden I realized that he was dying.

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

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

It transpired that Saddam Hussein was attempting to make some kind of speech or have some kind of discussion with the judge outside of what the judge had directly asked him,

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

But think how much more of a contribution we could make to this great society if we weren’t so dependent on what I call those hocus-focus-pocus awful groups who tell us what people are not...

They have said they do not have any nuclear weapons-related activities, which means we have to do a lot of work,

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?

Obviously, a successful Palestinian election and what seems to be a successful Iraqi election can only assure people that this is a process that the Middle East needs, and one that needs to be taken...

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

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It’s crazy, it’s wild, who knows, maybe they’ll take you because you certainly don’t fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

We thrived as I said on the pioneer spirit of CNN. We adored being the little network that could.