'I Believe In Being Truthful, Not Neutral' - Amanpour Drops Truth Bomb On Da-Don

[Cigar]

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

[DGUtley]

I am all for them reporting the news, but their conduct in the run-up to the election went way beyond that. I personally saw it for 8 years and Wikileaks confirmed it. They were in bed with the administration and worked hard to get Cankles elected. The problem with her statement is that "truth" is a relative and subjective statement. The MSM has spent 8 years undermining the concept of a free and independent press and now wants to whine when someone calls it out?

Having said that, I want the American press to hold the Trump administration accountable. I want the American press to challenge the Trump administration. I want the American press to force the Trump administration to prove its legitimacy. It did none of that during the Obama years, which will be viewed (imho) as one of the great tragedies in American journalistic history. Only by holding the government accountable can we truly have transparency in government.

[Tahuyaman]

Left wing hysteria is going to be extremely entertaining for at least the next four years.

[Cigar]

I'm all for reporting current events, not everyone calls that News but as long as it's not fiction or made up events.

Example: If Donald Trump is caught on Video & Audio saying he can Grab a Woman's Puzzy, calling Mexican Rapist and Murders or Calling Black People Lazy ...

That's called an Event; like it or not, those words actually came from Donald Trump own mouth.

It may not be News to people who know Donald Trump.

[DGUtley]

I'm all for reporting current events, not everyone calls that News but as long as it's not fiction or made up events. Example: If Donald Trump is caught on Video & Audio saying he can Grab a Woman's Puzzy, calling Mexican Rapist and Murders or Calling Black People Lazy ... That's called an Event; like it or not, those words actually came from Donald Trump own mouth. It may not be News to people who know Donald Trump.

I'm all for reporting that, though it was hardly a current event. It was 11 years ago, but in the context of an election, I think it was fair game.

[FindersKeepers]

I'm all for reporting current events, not everyone calls that News but as long as it's not fiction or made up events.

Example: If Donald Trump is caught on Video & Audio saying he can Grab a Woman's Puzzy, calling Mexican Rapist and Murders or Calling Black People Lazy ...

That's called an Event; like it or not, those words actually came from Donald Trump own mouth.

It may not be News to people who know Donald Trump.


I agree -- there's nothing wrong with reporting that. People have to put it into whatever perspective fits for them. I'm not sure that the old audio tape is worth beating to death -- because it's pretty old, but, then again, there were those who labeled Obama a pot-smoker, even though he'd smoked in his younger days, so turnabout is fair play, I suppose.

[AZ Jim]

I am all for them reporting the news, but their conduct in the run-up to the election went way beyond that. I personally saw it for 8 years and Wikileaks confirmed it. They were in bed with the administration and worked hard to get Cankles elected. The problem with her statement is that "truth" is a relative and subjective statement. The MSM has spent 8 years undermining the concept of a free and independent press and now wants to whine when someone calls it out?

Having said that, I want the American press to hold the Trump administration accountable. I want the American press to challenge the Trump administration. I want the American press to force the Trump administration to prove its legitimacy. It did none of that during the Obama years, which will be viewed (imho) as one of the great tragedies in American journalistic history. Only by holding the government accountable can we truly have transparency in government.
You are one of our more sophisticated posters and seem fair in most cases but your constant use of the term "cankes" tends to lower your credibility.

[DGUtley]

You are one of our more sophisticated posters and seem fair in most cases but your constant use of the term "cankes" tends to lower your credibility.
You know what, you're right. I shouldn't do it. It won't happen again.

[Captain Obvious]

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[Peter1469]

You know what, you're right. I shouldn't do it. It won't happen again.


She no longer has anything to sell. She won't be in the news anymore.

[Cigar]

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[MisterVeritis]

You know what, you're right. I shouldn't do it. It won't happen again.
I suggest "Crooked" instead.

[Subdermal]

So much of what Amampour considers 'truth' is in point of fact merely opinion.

And that's the danger.

[Tahuyaman]

She no longer has anything to sell. She won't be in the news anymore.

Can she handle not being in the news any more? Chances are she is going to make every effort to keep herself relevant.

[Tahuyaman]

So much of what Amampour considers 'truth' is in point of fact merely opinion.

And that's the danger.

Left wing /socialist opinion is truth in their mind. Even if they make it up on the spur of the moment.

[jimmyz]

You are one of our more sophisticated posters and seem fair in most cases but your constant use of the term "cankes" tends to lower your credibility.

Like your avatar of Trump with an anus for a mouth? Here's your sign... Got Hypocrite