BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Christiane Amanpour now with a look back at CNN's global impact in today's "CNN 20" segment.</s>CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Before CNN, there was no such thing as globalized, international 24-hour television news. Luckily, CNN is one of the few organizations that is still committed to covering the world. And, obviously, in our increasingly globalized society, it's indispensable. I mean, it's just simply not realistic to think that you can get away with not covering most of the rest of the world, because everything is interconnected these days. I do believe that television news reporting may have helped introduce a new dimension to international politics, the human dimension in which individual rights are as important as the traditional state sovereign rights. An organization like CNN has democratized information around the rest of the world because when you are in countries essentially that only have state-controlled media as their prime source of information, a CNN inevitably democratizes information and gives people another look, another view, another point of view of what is going on. I think that CNN has vastly improved the ability of a vast number of people to get news, and has also been a force for good in this world.
CNN 20: Christiane Amanpour on Global Coverage