Posted on 01/31/2006 11:04:52 AM PST by april15Bendovr
Article #1
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060131.asp Jan 31 2006
1. Amanpour: "War in Iraq Has Basically Turned Out to Be a Disaster" "The war in Iraq has basically turned out to be a disaster," Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent, declared from London live on Monday's Larry King Live. In the segment in which journalists discussed the serious injury from a bomb in Iraq to ABC anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt, she lamented how "journalists have paid for it, paid for the privilege of witnessing and reporting that." She added: "For some reason which I can't fathom, the kind of awful thing that's going on there now on a daily basis has almost become humdrum. So when something happens to people that we identify, like Bob and like Doug, we wake up again and realize, no, this is not acceptable, what's going on there. And it's a terrible situation." King replied: "Well said." Later, in a segment on kidnaped journalist Jill Carroll, Amanpour asserted that "by any indicator Iraq is a black hole" and a "spiraling security disaster."
Article #2
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030409.asp#2 April 9 2003
CBS's Logan & CNN's Amanpour Don't Appreciate Clarke's Advice
CBS's Lara Logan and CNN's Christiane Amanpour didn't appreciate Pentagon spokesman Torie Clarke's advice that a war zone is a dangerous place.
Logan concluded her April 8 CBS Evening News story from Baghdad: “Baghdad is a dangerous location a U.S. spokesman said today. No one here needed to be told that.” On CNN on Tuesday afternoon, Amanpour, in Kuwait, lectured: “I would say that most of the journalists who are there [in Baghdad] have got a lot more experience in risky situations in war than some of the spokespeople who are giving out those comments.”
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She's the Helen Thomas of the future.
Idiocy like this is why they will never, ever regain cable news supremacy from FOX.
Exactly.
to read later ........ bump
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