Today's Christine Amanpour CNN report is clean of pro-Bush Iraq spin!

[papau]

Today's Christine Amanpour CNN report - reporting from IRAQ -is clean of pro-Bush Iraq spin!

She notes that while the 600 at the dinner had their morale lifted, the other 130,000 today are just hearing about the trip - and seem to have a common/universal "no big deal - so what" response to the Turkey that landed.

Likewise she mentions the BBC poll to be released Monday shows equal numbers of Iraqi's think that US is a good country, getting rid of Saddam was worth the destruction, and they are willing to give the US as much time as it wants to make things work, compared to an equal number that feel we are destroyers - their number one desire is to kick us out of country - and feel we do not know how to rebuild a country.

And she notes that the police - the 3 week wonders that Bush and Rummy tossed out in October - while motivated to help us and see helping us as helping Iraq - and are not running from the bombs placed at police stations - feel they need much more training and equipment - and do not see taking over the security function for many years.

But Folks - Christine seems to be reporting that hearts and minds are split 50/50 per BBC poll on "nice USA - let nice USA stay for a while"

Given prior polls announce by the administration, we have lost half of our support - or perhaps the prior polls were bogus or questions were asked so as to get the most positive response that Bush media buddies could report!

An Interesting CNN reports - I wonder if Christine is allowed to broadcast this clearly only because it is after Bush gives the finger to CNN.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Do ya'll get the feeling that spiting CNN and favoring Fox News

was a bad idea? Karl's Folly.

[maddezmom]

2. yes

Nik Roberts has also done some objective stories since the turkey landed.

[Billy Burnett]

12. Really?

Has he reported on the suicides? Or the civillian body count? Did he report on the 12 and 15 year old girls who were shot by US forces to secure Bush's landing?

[papau]

3. I hope so! :-)

:-)

[rocktivity]

9. Oh, wouldn't it be lovely

If CNN turned on them like that!!!!


rocknation

[AmericanDem]

4. Notice how rarely they use her.

Its as if they are keeping her out of site as much as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if her contract isn't renewed or they keep her on the European CNN only.

[lostnfound]

6. That might be the dumbest move they could make.

I wonder if her challenge is delivering something truthful which lacks the government-approved spin but still passes the censors..
Smart capable reporter stuck in a lousy lousy system.

[AmericanDem]

10. with the apparent changes at CNN

It sure shows she doesn't come from the same message they are trying to force on the public.

Have you watch Inside Politics with Woodruff and Crowley lately? I can imagine the supervisor's talk to her spelling out how things must go or she will, subtely of course.

[StopThief]

5. Ummmm. . . . . .

If you've ever heard any report from Amanpour, you would know that she has never had anything good to say about anything the Bush administration does.

[maddezmom]

7. she is married to James Rubin n/t

[wtmusic]

8. She's a media whore

whose reporting blows with the wind of public opinion polls.

[madfloridian]

11. Good article on her and hubby, James Rubin.

http://www.nicholaskralev.com/FT-amanpour-rubin.html (from 1999)

SNIP...."For CNN’s chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, and State Department spokesman James Rubin, the forthcoming member of their family has become a way to show the world that “some of us can have everything” -- successful careers and a normal personal life.

Amanpour, 41, is one of the world’s most recognisable television stars, having covered various wars from Iraq to Bosnia, and Rwanda to Kosovo. Rubin, 39, is a sometimes forceful but always charming New Yorker, a confidant of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; he’s respected for his foreign policy credentials, but he has also attracted the attention of women across the globe through broadcasts of his press briefings....."