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Amanpour: CNN practiced self-censorship, intimidated by the Bush administration and Fox News
USATODAY ^
| 09/14/03
| Peter Johnson
Posted on 09/14/2003 11:12:49 PM PDT by Pikamax
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:41:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Amanpour: CNN practiced self-censorship CNN's top war correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, says that the press muzzled itself during the Iraq war. And, she says CNN "was intimidated" by the Bush administration and Fox News, which "put a climate of fear and self-censorship." As criticism of the war and its aftermath intensifies, Amanpour joins a chorus of journalists and pundits who charge that the media largely toed the Bush administrationline in covering the war and, by doing so, failed to aggressively question the motives behind the invasion.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aftermathanalysis; cheeseandwhine; cnn; foxbashing; iraqifreedom; lowratings; marketforces; mediabias; saddamhandmaidens; televisedwar; warcorrespondents
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:12:50 PM PDT
by
Pikamax
To: Pikamax
Shut up Aman-impure. Wasn't she married to Peter Arnett?
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:14:44 PM PDT
by
Az Joe
To: Pikamax
My BP was going up too much until the quote
"Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti said of Amanpour's comments: "Given the choice, it's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than a spokeswoman for al-Qaeda."
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:14:48 PM PDT
by
america-rules
(I'm one proud American right now !)
Someone's wrapping her burka too tight when she plays "Saddam and the captured princess" with her Clintonista hubby.
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:15:06 PM PDT
by
Pynchon65
To: Pikamax
Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti said of Amanpour's comments: "Given the choice, it's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than a spokeswoman for al-Qaeda." Great line, Irena!
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:15:33 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Is the DemocRATic party extinct yet?)
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:16:02 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Is the DemocRATic party extinct yet?)
To: america-rules
"...spokeswoman for Al-Qaeda"!
Oh man, that's precious!!
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:16:25 PM PDT
by
Az Joe
To: sdk7x7
ping!
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:16:59 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Is the DemocRATic party extinct yet?)
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ping!
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:18:06 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Is the DemocRATic party extinct yet?)
To: Az Joe
CNN CENSORSHIP....
IT'S A DIRTY JOB BUT SOMEBODY HAS GOT TO DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: Pynchon65
laughing uncontrollably. Thanks.
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:19:36 PM PDT
by
Finalapproach29er
("Don't shoot Mongo, you'll only make him mad.")
To: Pikamax
Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti said of Amanpour's comments: "Given the choice, it's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than a spokeswoman for al-Qaeda." Touche!
To: Pikamax
Brown then asked Amanpour if there was any story during the war that she couldn't report."It's not a question of couldn't do it, it's a question of tone," Amanpour said
Here, of course, Amanpour is whining that she and her ("don't-use-the-word-scandal-when-reporting-on-the-Clinton-scandals") CNN no longer felt free to do their usual liberal hatchet job. "Intimidation" had nothing to do with it - - it's always about ratings and credibility, and since the American public now have access to the truth via Fox news, CNN had no choice but to actually play it straight. What a pig.
To: nutmeg
Sometimes the good guys triumph.Amanpour is anti American.
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:27:34 PM PDT
by
MEG33
To: Az Joe
Shut up Aman-impure. Wasn't she married to Peter Arnett? I don't know, but she currently is married to ex-Clinton WH press secretary James Rubin.
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:28:01 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Pikamax
Amanpour joins a chorus of journalists and pundits who charge that the media largely toed the Bush administrationline Shouldn't that be towed? ....unless, of course, we're talking about Dick Morris in the early days.
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:31:02 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
Toed the line is correct.
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:33:23 PM PDT
by
MEG33
To: MEG33
Oh. Thanks.
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:34:06 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Az Joe
Maybe by slant, but she is married to James Rubin a true Clinton beleiver.
To: Pikamax
Certainly, the confrontational press was nonexistent leading up to the war. I always assumed that war is good for the news business, so they didn't want to get in it's way too badly.
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posted on
09/14/2003 11:35:42 PM PDT
by
St.Chuck
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