Sadly, marriage and motherhood have coincided with the demise of journalism as I knew it and I dreamt that it would always be.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

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.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

open hostility and defiance.