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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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"When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good for humanity. And assuming that we survive long enough to use their inventions wisely, I believe the same will be said of the modern Thoths and Prometheuses who are today devisingcomputers and programs at the edge of machine intelligence."
"To a man with an internet connection, every thought and every movement sounds like a tweet or status update."
"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
"At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But now it is the other way about: the person who doesn't own one is a curiosity."
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"There are as many opinions as there are experts."
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"Technophillia is our natural state: we love our object and follow where they lead."
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"In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them."
"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."
"I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something."
"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."
"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."
"CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas."
"We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News."
"I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months."
"Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world."
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