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11-28-2016, 12:56 PM
Christiane Amanpour Drops Truth Bomb On Trump Era Press: 'I Believe In Being Truthful, Not Neutral' (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/26/1604306/-Christiane-Amanpour-Drops-Truth-Bomb-On-Trump-Era-Press-I-Believe-In-Being-Truthful-Not-Neutral)
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 (https://www.cpj.org/awards/2016/christiane-amanpour.php) 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."
"I was chilled when [Trump's] first tweet after the election was about professional protesters incited by the media." [Because as we all know] "First the media is accused of inciting, then sympathizing, then associating. And then suddenly they find themselves accused of being full-fledged terrorists and subversives. And then they end up in handcuffs, in cages, in kangaroo courts, in prisons, and then who knows what.
"Rejecting the god of their fathers, the neo-pagans who dominate the media serve as lackeys at the terrorists’ bloody altar. [...] Although it seems unthinkable now, future wars may require censorship, news blackouts and, ultimately, military attacks on the partisan media."
"[It's time to] recommit to robust, fact-based reporting, without fear or without favor, on the issues. Don't stand for being labeled or called 'lying,' or 'crooked,' or 'failing.'"
"I learned a long, long time ago...never to equate victim and aggressor. Never to create a false moral or factual equivalence...So I believe in being truthful, not neutral. And I believe we must stop banalizing the truth. We have to be prepared to fight especially hard right now for the truth."
"[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."
"I feel that we face an existential crisis, a threat to the very relevance and usefulness of our profession. Now, more than ever, we need to recommit to real reporting across a real nation, a real world in which journalism and democracy are in mortal peril. Including by foreign powers like Russia who pay to churn out and place these false news articles, these lies, in many of our press. They hack into democratic systems."
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/26/1604306/-Christiane-Amanpour-Drops-Truth-Bomb-On-Trump-Era-Press-I-Believe-In-Being-Truthful-Not-Neutral
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 (https://www.cpj.org/awards/2016/christiane-amanpour.php) 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."
"I was chilled when [Trump's] first tweet after the election was about professional protesters incited by the media." [Because as we all know] "First the media is accused of inciting, then sympathizing, then associating. And then suddenly they find themselves accused of being full-fledged terrorists and subversives. And then they end up in handcuffs, in cages, in kangaroo courts, in prisons, and then who knows what.
"Rejecting the god of their fathers, the neo-pagans who dominate the media serve as lackeys at the terrorists’ bloody altar. [...] Although it seems unthinkable now, future wars may require censorship, news blackouts and, ultimately, military attacks on the partisan media."
"[It's time to] recommit to robust, fact-based reporting, without fear or without favor, on the issues. Don't stand for being labeled or called 'lying,' or 'crooked,' or 'failing.'"
"I learned a long, long time ago...never to equate victim and aggressor. Never to create a false moral or factual equivalence...So I believe in being truthful, not neutral. And I believe we must stop banalizing the truth. We have to be prepared to fight especially hard right now for the truth."
"[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."
"I feel that we face an existential crisis, a threat to the very relevance and usefulness of our profession. Now, more than ever, we need to recommit to real reporting across a real nation, a real world in which journalism and democracy are in mortal peril. Including by foreign powers like Russia who pay to churn out and place these false news articles, these lies, in many of our press. They hack into democratic systems."
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/26/1604306/-Christiane-Amanpour-Drops-Truth-Bomb-On-Trump-Era-Press-I-Believe-In-Being-Truthful-Not-Neutral