Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad. |
His hair is black, as it's always been, his beard was black with significant gray ... a good deal older and weaker and more frail than he looked the last time I saw him come into court in the summer of 2004 when he came for his initial hearing. |
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. |
I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. |
I have lost many friends and I've seen many, many more wounded, by snipers, by mortar shells, by landmines and by the crazed Kalashnikov-wielding druggies at checkpoints. |
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. |
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. |
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. |
I think it [an attack] certainly will have an adverse effect on the Islamic world and also in the other parts, |
I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent. |
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 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 wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around the world, because it couldn't be more important. |
I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way. |
If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do? |