While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was leaving NBC News to go to CNN, people would say, 'What?! Why would you possibly leave the 'Today Show' to go to cable?' If I would've listened to people, I would've been on a great platform, but I wouldn't have grown as a journalist. So far, most of the steps in my career have been really good.
Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be.
My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.
Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.
At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.
I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.
I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.