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.

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.

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

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...

And I worked my way up through every level. I was a writer, I was a producer, I was a field producer, I was a reporter and I am a reporter.

We, I believe, are in the fight of our lives to save this profession which we love. I believe we can do it, and I believe we can win this battle.

I am personally thrilled though by the changes at CNN, which no doubt you have all read about. because it means we are responding to the times.

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.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.