:14:00
...and news director, to name a few,
did to get me this award.
:14:09
This is an onion.
:14:12
It's a metaphor for a news story.
:14:14
A few hours ago, I was standing on
a ledge 60 stories above the street...
:14:18
...interviewing a man who subsequently
jumped to his death.
:14:22
Forty million dollars in the bank,
happily married, good health.
:14:27
Great story.
:14:30
But there's got to be more.
I mean, we're pros, right?
:14:34
Some kind of extramarital
hanky-panky, maybe?
:14:38
Another great story.
:14:40
Maybe the guy's been accused
of child molesting.
:14:43
A terrific story.
:14:45
What? It turns out
the accusations were false?
:14:48
Wonderful. More story.
:14:50
Maybe the alleged mistress was lying.
Setting the guy up, huh?
:14:55
Sensational story.
:14:57
So we keep going.
:14:59
Excuse me. Keep digging.
:15:01
Keep investigating.
:15:02
We expose the guy's whole life.
His family.
:15:05
Why? Because we're pros.
:15:07
Because we're looking for the truth.
:15:09
But what if it turns out,
after all our digging...
:15:12
...after all our
painstaking investigation...
:15:15
What if it turns out
there wasn't any truth?
:15:18
Just stories.
:15:20
One story after another,
until there's nothing left.
:15:23
And do we have any obligation
to stop at any point?
:15:26
Or do we just keep going, digging,
peeling until we've peeled it all away?
:15:31
Until we've destroyed what
we investigated in the first place.
:15:40
I'll bet all of you, like me...
:15:44
...yearn for just one story...
:15:46
...that isn't about unveiling
layer after layer of human weakness.
:15:50
A story that reveals,
with each layer of investigation...
:15:54
...something finer and nobler.
:15:58
Something even inspirational.