Christiane Amanpour Drops Truth Bomb On Trump Era Press: 'I Believe In Being Truthful, Not Neutral'

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Christiane Amanpour Drops Truth Bomb On Trump Era Press: 'I Believe In Being Truthful, Not Neutral'

By News Corpse
Saturday Nov 26, 2016 · 1:16 PM EST

This week CNN's chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, received the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. It is awarded at the International Press Freedom Awards for "extraordinary and sustained achievement in the cause of press freedom. Her acceptance speech was an inspiring appeal to "recommit to robust, fact-based reporting" in the Age of Trump. [Video below]

Right from the start Amanpour addressed the serious challenge posed by Donald Trump's rancid rhetoric. She recognized the risks created by a candidate whose words literally incited violence toward reporters:

"I never thought in a million years that I'd be standing up here, after all the times I've participated in this ceremony, appealing, really, for the freedom and safety of American journalists at home."

That is indeed a sobering realization on the current state of media relations as practiced by Trump and his campaign. Even so, Amanpour expressed optimism that after the election Trump would moderate his hostility toward the press. Unfortunately, he did no such thing:...


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[Else You Are Mad]

1. Exactly.

The reason why we are in the situation we are in is that the media has -- possibly intentionally -- confused objectivity with neutrality. A person does not need to be neutral to remain objective. I am tired of this both sides do it and giving equal weight to both sides when it is obvious one side is wrong.

[elehhhhna]

3. This all started with Fox's "fair and balanced reporting", remember?

Our msm is a tool of the global 1%

[cilla4progress]

2. Yes,

Thank you.

[bullimiami]

4. Finally. This is what "News" is. Anything other is opinion, entertainment and propaganda.

[radical noodle]

5. Truthful, not neutral

sums up the difference between a journalist and a talk show host who pretends to report the news.

[Hekate]

6. KnRnB

[Martin Eden]

7. So many good quotes, like this one:

"[Donald Trump] did a very savvy end run around us and used it to go straight to the people. Combined with the most incredible development ever, which is the tsunami of fake news, aka lies."

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. If the media would behave as if it lived in and cared about the country

we would be far better served. Always too much about the will of their corporate owners, or focusing on money by playing the false equivalence game.

[hamsterjill]

9. I think she's awesome.

I've been a fan of her journalism for some time. She is very professional and amazingly brilliant. We need more like her.

[dhol82]

10. Why did she choose to wait until after the election to speak out?

[lindysalsagal]

11. Why is it when a woman wins a prestigeous award, you don't see her face?

I wanted to see a photo of Amanpour receiving the award, but instead,
you see the orange emperor on DK until you scroll down 4 screens to the video.

SHE WON THE DAMN AWARD! fRump's photo shouldn't be on it AT ALL!!!