i have to say that when i was first being interviewed i said, because he was not speaking to the media. i said, by his silence he has ceded his power to his victims and the media. and we ran with it. >> let me ask -- >> cnn had not stuck with us with -- if the media had not been as tenacious as the other -- all the other victims had been not as tenacious as they were this wouldn't have happened. you, your station and many, many others, the newspapers, gave us a voice. the worst thing that happens when you are a sexual victim is this feeling of voicelessness. >> yeah. and that's one of the jobs of the media, obviously, to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comforted -- comfortable.