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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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Christiane Amanpour
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 12
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London
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Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour
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Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.
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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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Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.
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My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.
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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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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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People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.
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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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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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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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If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
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I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.
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And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.
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