Amanpour on press responsibility

[kcwayne]

Said Amanpour: "I think the press was muzzled, and I think the press self-muzzled. I'm sorry to say, but certainly television and, perhaps, to a certain extent, my station was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News. And it did, in fact, put a climate of fear and self-censorship, in my view, in terms of the kind of broadcast work we did."

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. "It's a question of being rigorous. It's really a question of really asking the questions. All of the entire body politic in my view, whether it's the administration, the intelligence, the journalists, whoever, did not ask enough questions, for instance, about weapons of mass destruction. I mean, it looks like this was disinformation at the highest levels."

Clarke called the disinformation charge "categorically untrue" and added, "In my experience, a little over two years at the Pentagon, I never saw them (the media) holding back. I saw them reporting the good, the bad and the in between."

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."

No Faux, it's better to viewed as someone reporting the truth.



original article

[w13rd0]

1. Seeing as "Fair and Balanced" is a slogan "Wholly without Merit"...

...perhaps Fox could adopt this as their new slogan:

Fox: foot soldiers for Bush

[Ohio Dem]

2. Nice of Fox to call Amanpour an al-Qaeda spokeswoman, though.

Typical.

[joeybee12]

3. That Fox spokeswoman was amazing!

What a nazi propogandist pig!

[madfloridian]

4. Where did you hear/read this? CNN?

What time? I notice Amanpour has been more forthcoming since the war.

[kcwayne]

5. Here is the link

Original Article

[donsu]

6. thank you Amanpour! and a bunch of hugs too

for speaking up and telling the truth. she's one hard working woman and I admire her.

[Lefty48197]

7. Amanpour is great

of course every right winger in America will now scoff whenever you mention her name.

[sugarcookie]

8. I just read CNN ousted their General Manager

She is mentioned towards the bottom of the article. I hope she doesn't get the Ashliegh Banfield treatment.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030915/D7TJ2AL80.html

edit: spelling