KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: "CNN 20" today, a CNN original remembers the network's early days.</s>RICHARD ROTH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I have been with CNN since April 1, 1980. My first job at CNN was the assignment manager for CNN New York and also deputy bureau chief. Certainly without CNN some of the big events of history may not have happened or may not have happened quickly: fall of communism in Eastern Europe may not have happened as quickly without CNN and picture and images going around the world so quickly. I have stayed at CNN for 20 years because I still like covering news, and I think CNN is still the only place where news coverage is still carried out the way it used to be when I grew up reading the "New York Daily News" when I was 5 years old. And I still think there are a lot of good people at CNN. At times, you don't feel like you are at work, and I think that Ted Turner's ideals that he wanted to set out in 1979, I think are still there and hold. And certainly, I like the fact that CNN International has expanded, and we are getting news coverage out to many people who never used to have any type of news.</s>ROTH: Richard Roth, CNN, reporting live from Tel Aviv.
CNN 20: Richard Roth Remembers the Early Days of CNN