The process of news gathering has transformed since the Cold War era of the early 1980s, when Ted Turner’s CNN and I began our careers in journalism, but the pursuit of truth has not changed.
Fresh from college, looking for a stepping stone into the big time, I took a job at what was then a little start-up called CNN.
It was just three years after Ted Turner launched Cable News Network to the world. I had no idea I would end up staying for my entire career, much less that it would become the world’s number one news network.
The enemy back then was nuclear war, and it is difficult to convey just how real the threat felt back in the early 80s, but when Ted Turner conceived the network, that foreboding sense of imminent threat was central to