[A]sk the people who kill them [journalists], beat them, and put them in prison, whether it's important, because they all know you cannot have a free society without a free press. Period. You cannot oppress the people, you can't steal from them, you can't take away their rights in the face of a free and active press, that's why they go after the journalists, that's why everybody hates journalists. No, we're not all wonderful people, we're not all even very good at the job we do, and there are constraints, institutional constraints, societal constraints that keep us from achieving this wonderful goal of finding and telling the truth, but most of the journalists that I know are highly idealistic people with a firm sense of outrage. They try to do that as best as they can. So yeah I think it was worthwhile. I think it was worth doing. (Anderson, 29)

I want to tell the Afghan story. The Afghans’ story. I want to tell the Pakistanis’ story. I want their voice as well to be told. … To be able to get to villagers who are back of beyond, to be able to get to Pakistanis who are under threat … it is for me a joy. … I spend a tremendous amount of effort organizing it. … Like when the story about … the victims of the … American soldier that is charged with killing those 16 people. … [A crucial female witness] would never have been allowed to go to Kabul, so we went to Kandahar. And they took risks to come and talk to us, talking to foreigners, because there's of course Taliban around.