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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has allowed CNN to resume operating in the country after the American cable news network apologised for mistakenly quoting him saying Tehran was seeking nuclear weapons, state radio reported Tuesday. During CNN's live translation of a press conference by Ahmadinejad Saturday, the president was quoted as saying that "we believe all nations are allowed to have nuclear weapons" and that the West should not "deprive us to have nuclear weapons". The president was, however, using a Farsi word that meant "technology" and not "weapons". On Monday Iran's culture ministry had issued the ban: "Taking into...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Monday banned CNN journalists from working there after the broadcaster misquoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tehran wanted nuclear weapons. CNN's simultaneous translation of Ahmadinejad's lengthy news conference on Saturday included the phrase "the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right". In fact, what the Iranian president said was that "Iran has the right to nuclear energy," the official IRNA news agency reported. CNN later clarified in an apology on Sunday night. Iran denies any intention of seeking nuclear weapons, saying it wants atomic technology merely for the generation of electricity. Mohammad Hossein Khoshvaght, director...

I have taken steps to begin the inquiry into possible impeachable offenses by the Bush Administration, and have called for censure of the President and the Vice President. Now I am asking for your help to stand with me in fighting for accountability. We need to present a unified front in our call for justice. A coalition of organizations, led by AfterDowningStreet.org, has organized a series of town hall events and house parties this weekend to coordinate grassroots activity in support of efforts to investigate impeachable offenses. Find an Event in Your Area Action Center Become a Citizen Cosponsor Donate...

Amanpour Unaware Of Eavesdropping Responding to this post, a CNN spokesperson released the following statement: "Neither CNN nor Christiane Amanpour is aware of alleged eavesdropping by the government on Ms. Amanpour and we are unable to confirm this story. We are looking into it." >

It gets curiouser and curiouser. As we noted Wednesday, [a liberal site] noticed an odd moment in Andrea Mitchell's interview this week with New York Times reporter James Risen: While interviewing Risen about his new book and revelations that George W. Bush authorized warrantless spying on American citizens, Mitchell asked Risen if he had any information suggesting that CNN's international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, "might have been eavesdropped upon." Risen said he didn't. But as [the liberal site] surmised, the question certainly suggested that Mitchell did. Right about the time the [liberal site's] theory started floating through the blogosphere, somebody deleted...

Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour is inside the Baghdad courthouse where the first trial of Saddam Hussein on charges of crimes against humanity began Wednesday. She described the visibly frail former Iraqi president's arrival in court as he attempted to launch into a defiant speech even before proceedings were under way.

The pro-terrorist Al Jazeera International will debut early next year as a 24-hour English-language news network headquartered in the Middle East. And efforts to bring the network to the U.S. have been "very interesting and extremely encouraging,” according to Commercial Director Lindsey Oliver. At launch the network will have a staff of "hundreds,” said Oliver, a former director of CNBC Europe. The advertising-supported network will operate out of four broadcast centers – Washington, London, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia - and Doha, Qatar, its headquarters. The international version of Al Jazeera, which has been accused by Washington of having an anti-American,...

New York (AP) -- Christiane Amanpour, television's best-known international correspondent, said Thursday she's ending her part-time stint at CBS'"60 Minutes" because the arrangement had "run its course." Amanpour is continuing as chief international correspondent for CNN. She had been contributing to "60 Minutes" since 1996, usually four or five stories a year. This season she's done two: a profile of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, and a story about how the U.S. military sent a psychology unit to Iraq to help deal with battle fatigue. The arrangement with "60 Minutes""allowed me to report in-depth international stories for a large and important...

Last night I was burning the midnight oil watching Christiane Amanpour over at CNN-UN. They rushed her in from some war zone somewhere. And she was talking in her lofty tones about the Pope, and she got egg all over her face by the time she was finished: AMANPOUR: He never once did sit down with the press. He never really gave a formal interview. I know so many people would have wanted to talk to him. Do you think that it was extraordinary that he did not? JIM BITTERMAN: Well I think that's not exactly true, Christiane. In fact...

... This morning on the Laura Ingraham radio show, a guest (a Catholic priest, I forget his name ... sorry) said he heard a "major" reporter say that John Paul II "was the first NON-CATHOLIC POPE." Ha!! But the priest did not identify the reporter by name. I did a Google search for "first non-catholic pope" + "Amanpour," and all I found was a weird blog saying CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR had said it. Did anyone hear this from Amanpour ... or someone else?

"World leaders, certainly U.S. allies, are concerned that George W. Bush has not yet shown much personal interest in foreign affairs..."

Thu Jun 24, 6:07 PM ET Pamela McClintock, STAFFIn a sweeping apology to TV and print journalists covering Iraq ( - ), a contrite Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Thursday he was wrong in accusing them of sitting in their Baghdad hotels and publishing rumors.   "Just let me say to each of you who have worked so hard and taken such risks to cover this story, I extend a heartfelt apology and hope you will accept it," Wolfowitz wrote in the letter, dispatched via email. "I understand well the enormous dangers that you face, and want to...

Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s senior foreign correspondent, thinks that journalists censored themselves during the war in Iraq. She told CNBC’s Tina Brown that "the media was muzzled" and "intimidated" and that a "climate of fear and self-censorship" inhibited coverage of the war. The culprits: the Bush administration and its "foot soldiers at Fox News." (Ironically, one media watchdog has declared CBS the "most pro-war" in its coverage.) But when challenged to cite a story that she was prevented from reporting, she came up short. She could only point to a "question of tone." "It’s really a question of really asking the...

CNN is having a rough time of it lately. Not only has it been thoroughly trounced in the ratings war by Fox News, it has had to admit that they have a problem with facts - namely that they seem to have a problem reporting them. Christiane Amanpour is billed as CNN’s top correspondent - which is bad enough, considering her reporting. Now she’s embarrassing the already shame-worthy CNN by saying that they were intimidated into not reporting facts; intimidated by two rather ludicrous sources - Fox News and the Bush administration. She doesn’t offer any hard proof, just the...

<p>Our first reaction to yesterday's ruling in Southwest Voter Registration Education Project v. Shelley (link in PDF form), in which the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the cancellation of next month's California election, was a sort of grudging admiration for the cleverness with which the three ultraliberal judges on the panel (one Carter and two Clinton appointees) seemed to be poking the eye of the Supreme Court.</p>

Veteran New York Times correspondent John Burns claims foreign journalists covering the Iraq war while Saddam Hussein was still in power did not present a true picture of the regime's tyranny because they believed they needed to curry favor with officials in order to gain and maintain access. JohnBurns's comments were excerpted by Editor and Publisher magazine from the newly published Lyons Press book, "Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, an Oral History," by Bill Katovksy and Timothy Carlson. The Times reporter said he put Iraq in a category of totalitarian states all its own, with the possible exception...

<p>CNN news chief Jim Walton had a "private converation" with reporter Christiane Amanpour after she accused her own network of being "intimidated" in its coverage of the Iraqi war. Amanpour, a guest on last week's "Topic A with Tina Brown" on CNBC, set off shockwaves in the TV world over the weekend when she said she thought her employer, CNN, was "muzzled" in its war coverage by a combination of the White House and its competitive position with the higher-rated Fox News Channel.</p>