 If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do? 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.
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Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.
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In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
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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.
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In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
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And I really believe good journalism is good business.
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We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
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And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.
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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.
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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.
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What we do and say and show really matters.
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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.
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If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
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Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it`s time to invest in talent, in people.
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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.
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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.
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In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it`s okay to aim his gun at a child.
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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.
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Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don`t trust or like journalists anymore and that`s sad.
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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.
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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 they`re too stupid to know the difference.
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We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
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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?
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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.
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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
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They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
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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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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.
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I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.
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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.
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Because if we the storytellers don`t do this, then the bad people will win.
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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.
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We do it because we`re committed, because we`re believers.
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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.
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I`m not an American but I have always had the outsiders` respect for the American people and the American way.
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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.
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I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
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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.
It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state of repressed fear.
But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.
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She was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2007 Queen`s Birthday Honors List for her services to journalism.
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Her son`s name is Darius which is a historical Persian name and it is the name of one of the most powerful kings of Iran`s history.
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Her son`s name is Darius. Darius is a Persian name which is a name of one of historical kings of Iran.
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Fluent in Farsi and most of the time speaks Farsi in Iran.
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Amanpour was permitted to interview the extremist Russian politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, for 60 Minutes after he specifically said he would not be interviewed by an American correspondent from the show.
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Her father is Iranian and her mother is British.
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Her parents are Mohammad and Patricia Amanpour.
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Is the eldest of four sisters.
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Was an accomplished equestrian who competed as a child jockey.
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At 11, she was sent from Iran to a Catholic girl`s boarding school in England.
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Is constantly refered to in "Gilmore Girls" (2000) as the character Rory`s (Alexis Bledel) big role model.
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Her son born was born on 27 March 2000. He was named Darius John Rubin - John after her & husband`s very good friend JFK Jr.
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Lived in Iran until her late teens/early twenties. She left her homeland because of the Iranian Revolution.
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She is half-Iranian
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Her first child, with husband James, was born [27 March 2000]
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She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism.
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Husband James P. Rubin is the State Department spokesman. [1999]
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News reporter for CNN. [1999]
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Spouse: James Rubin (8 August 1998 - present) 1 child
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