English - Journalist | January 12, 1958 -
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.
Christiane Amanpour
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I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
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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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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.
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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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We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.
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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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If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
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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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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 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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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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