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"During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer."
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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."

"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."

"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."

"Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard."

"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."

"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."

"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."

"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."

"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."
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"In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them."

"Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past."

"I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something."

"CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas."

"Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq."

"If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war."

"I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need."
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