On the one hand, obviously, you know, I've been covering Yemen for years. There's still a horrible war. People are dying as we speak.

But on the other hand, we have moved the debate on Yemen, the media and some politicians. And we are in a very different place to where we were a few years ago.

You know, we've had unprecedented votes in Congress. That is thanks to media coverage from news organizations that have invested in sending people on the ground from organizations that have debated and discussed this stuff. No, you're not going to get wins majority of the time.

That's just a reality. But even those wins you do get, we cherish them. And what's the alternative?

Is the alternative to give up and go home to cede all of the ground to these liars and professional

fabricators? No, it's not. I mean, there is, you know, you talk

about the value in, you know, catching someone out in a lie. There's a greater value in knowing that you

have done your due diligence, you've done your responsibility as a journalist. You know, this is what I

try and say to my fellow journalist. What is our point for existing if it's not to hold power to account? That doesn't mean you're

going to get a win or policy win. That doesn't mean you're going to change a certain piece of

behaviour. But it does mean you're going to do what you exist to do, which is to challenge people

in power, hold them to account. And in the old phrase, afflict the comfortable and comfort the

afflicted. And that's what I try and do in my journalism. And I say, look, I accept what you're

saying. In the Trump era in particular, it is deeply depressing to see these people still get away

with it, to see that one of the most depressing moments for me of the entire Trump presidency was

the White House correspondence dinner a couple of years ago when the comedian Michelle Wolf called

out Sarah Huckabee Sanders,

mocked her for her lies and her gaslighting, and White House correspondents,

some of the most influential journalists in America, fell over themselves to sympathize with Sanders and condemn Michelle Wolf. And yet everything Wolf said has been vindicated over

the last few, a couple of years.

That, for me, was a moment where I thought, wow, these people really do not get it. They don't get what their jobs are. They don't get the nature of the threat that Sanders and Trump poses to a free

press. They just don't get it. For me, that was a real low moment. And I was already not a fan of the US media as a whole, and that made me think, wow, it needs real reform and real change.

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