We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN. |
We do it because we're committed, because we're believers. |
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. |
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. |
In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child. |
Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league. |
We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does. |
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. |
I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way. |
Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad. |
I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. |
But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars. |