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"CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them."
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"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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