Amanpour: CNN practiced self-censorship

[Clete]

So we thought it was happening and now Christiane Amanpour has said that the network felt intimidated during the war.

<snip>
USA Today
by Peter Johnson

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 administration line in covering the war and, by doing so, failed to aggressively question the motives behind the invasion. <snip>

more...http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2003-09-14-media-mix_x.htm

So is the media finally waking up to their complicity in the Rove propaganda machine at last? Let's hope this is the beginning of some of the journalists and news outlets breaking away from the Faux newspeak disinformation machine.

[wtmusic]

1. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=114621

[veracity]

2. Too little, too late.

These "journalists" made a pact with the devil...and now are trying to find som excuses. If they had possessed any integrity at all, that "intimidation" would have been in the headlines... instead of the bull they gave us. Their betrayal of the public trust helped push the war and fool people into supporting the lies they refused to challenge or expose. I'm totally disgusted with Amanpour - this story should have been on CNN and not in USA Today. It's really a crime, and the public is not demanding that something be done.

[khashka]

3. Disgusted with Amanpour?

>this story should have been on CNN and not in USA Today.

She doesn't own CNN nor determine what they present. She's just the best journalist they've ever had.

OK it's too little too late but at least she DID say it.

I think she's God - at least as much as anyone who made a pact with Satan for a career in journalism can be. I've heard some pretty nasty stuff about her - but in a business where sucking blood and speaking with a forked tongue is a basic requirement, I think she's proved she has some amount of integrity and a lot of guts. Which is more than I can say for the rest of them.

[Oracle]

4. The pub;ic doen't demand shit, except to know what Jennifer Lopez

has to say!