You know, if you’re going to elevate a reporter to host a Sunday morning talk show, he should at least have a record of honest reporting, you know, getting at the truth — and not showing a particular prejudice for one side. But, if someone shows a particular animus toward one nation and another worldview, it is perhaps not a good idea to put that person in a position where she’d be interviewing Washington’s leading policy makers every week.
Well, that doesn’t seem to be deterring ABC from tapping a biased CNN reporter to replace George Stephanopoulos on This Week:
ABC News is close to concluding a deal to install the longtime CNN foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour as the new host of its Sunday political discussion show “This Week.”
As Donald Douglas reminds us in his post, Christiane Amanpour Would Be Disaster for ABC’s ‘This Week’, this “leftist and critic of the Iraq war is is married to Jamie Rubin, who was Assistant Secretary of State in Democrat Bill Clinton’s administration.”
And she’s not much of a draw either. Her latest ratings have her capturing barely one-third of the audience of the FoxNews program in the same Sunday time slot as hers; and she’s well behind MSNBC among the coveted 25-54 demographic.
If you want to know why the MSM is in decline, the mere fact that ABC would even consider someone with the record of Ms. Amanpour should help explain things. She is not known for her even-handedness, but for favoring enemies of the United States and their apologists on the left and being excessively critical of American policies, their defenders and our allies, particularly Israel.
It has been the success of folks like her that accounts, in large measure, for the decline in the MSM. People know bias when they see it. And this lady sure is biased.
NB: I changed the title and revised the first paragraph of this post because I thought my attempt at humor failed.
ABC is one of the most activist of the leftwing media. They dont CARE about ratings, they are the Ministry of Truth for the Obama administration. Diane Sawyer is currently doing a special on “saving the middle class” that is nothing but flat out propaganda for the Obama agenda. Episode one? Stirring up anger against the banks who were only doing what Democrats both forced and encouraged them to do — giving out loans to liberal welfare queens that couldnt pay them back.
You know who else stirred up anger against the banks?…
One thing I think Republicans need to do when they get back in power is put the networks broadcast licenses up for competitive bid. ABC, NBC, CBS are all left wing propagandists because they are not accountable to anyone for their content…not even their viewers who have left them in droves. Competition will keep these networks honest since nothing else can.
ABC mistakes Christiane Amanpour for Oriana Fallaci. There will never be another Fallaci and there is no way that Fallaci would have sold her journalist’s soul for face time on a third rate news beat.
I marvel that Christiane has overcome her resemblance to a draft mule to the point that people will patronize her booth at the side show. She stands in stark contrast to the perky Katie Couric and she deserves credit for breaking a standard “Q” rating mold. But why doesn’t ABC just cut to the chase and hire Valarie Jarrett? Black is good. Suave is good. Connected is good. And she would have an endless string of writers creating the words and even the news.
Just to make the point, I don’t believe in transexuality. I think it is made-up, like multiple personality disorder. Transexuality has nothing to do with being gay. Gay is not a gender disorder–gay is loving someone of the same sex. I don’t support transexual rights–I think they need therapy to help them identify with the gender they were born with.
You people just cannot hide the ugliness in your souls, can ya.
Tano, given the assumptions you made about me todays, all based on imagining the worst, you’re hardly one to talk.
Guess you just don’t see attempts at humor.
Is Amananpour even American?
I know she is married to that uppity guy from the state dept. who talks down to people all the time like he knows everything. Well like a liberal.