Christiane Amanpour stands up to CNN: she would've "dropped the mic at 'nasty person'"

[kpete]

Wow. Christiane Amanpour shows us how to stand up to CNN. She's the first CNN anchor to speak out against the Trump Town Hall, saying she "respectfully disagrees" with it & she would've "dropped the mic at 'nasty person.'" Thank you, Christiane, for saying the right thing.

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After hearing out Licht, Amanpour told the Columbia Journalism School graduates that she had not been moved.

“I still respectfully disagree with allowing Donald Trump to appear in that particular format,” the veteran anchor said, contending that the American people had demonstrated with their votes in the last three elections that they are well aware of his behavior.

“I would have dropped the mic at ‘nasty person,’ but then that’s me,” Amanpour candidly added, recounting the moment when Trump lashed out at moderator Kaitlan Collins for asking a question that he did not like.

Inside CNN, Amanpour is far from alone in her views. In private, the town hall has been widely criticized by employees at all levels across the organization. Some of these employees believe that Trump wasn’t worthy of a town hall platform after leading the insurrection on the US Capitol and continuing to spew dangerous lies about the 2020 election. Others believe that it was a worthy endeavor to confront him, but that the event was poorly executed.

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/media/christiane-amanpour-trump-town-hall-reliable-sources/index.html

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[MutantAndProud]

1. There are many other scripted programs

From which they could have chosen to cut to after it predictably devolved in the way everyone knows it always does. Only the people just waking up out of comas that somehow survived the pandemic would find related analysis useful anymore and that town hall was not that.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. i agreee , wouldnt have watched it if i had cable . me no throw tv against the wall.

lots of heavy iron in the base .(translate a scan, transformer)

[bucolic_frolic]

3. That's the whole problem, not duking it out with him

Who was the last Republican to come back at Trump? John McCain? That last journalist, to his face? No one that I recall. The public needs a tangible event.

[thucythucy]

5. The only one I can think of is

whoever got him to say "It is what it is" regarding a thousand Covid deaths a day.

The name escapes me, but he was British, I believe.

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. Jonathan Swan of Axios in 2020

[thucythucy]

7. Thank you.

This was the one I was thinking of but couldn't quite remember.

Thank you for posting the video.

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. Sure.

Gotta love the bit where Trumpy says “we’re lower than…the world”

Jesus cotton candy haired Christ, he’s a fucking moron.

[mopinko]

8. april ryan.

i think that’s her name. on pbs now i think.

[BeckyDem]

4. I agree but I am not certain that CNN's main objective was to be in control of the town hall.

They have been in a terrible format for years. Hunting ratings from the far right blew up in their face.

[Rebl2]

9. I agree

What I found irresponsible was only allowing tfg magats into the town hall.

[maxsolomon]

13. they allowed trump-supporting "independents", too

audience diversity!

I read on DU that CNN had also asked the audience not to be disrespectful to President Narcissist, but hooting and hollering was fine.

[BeckyDem]

16. Exactly. Why set it up that way if you want a balanced town hall? n/t

[Rebl2]

23. They did

not want it fair and balanced and am positive tfg would not have done T hall if democrats had been allowed in!!!

[Qutzupalotl]

11. Or just reply, "I've never sexually assaulted anyone. So answer the question."

[elleng]

12. Good to see. I watch her show regularly,

via PBS, and she's thorough, smart, and wise.

[dlk]

14. Amanpour has self-respect

Therein lies the difference

[tanyev]

15. Of course Donny would have never agreed to it if Amanpour was the moderator.

[Hortensis]

17. :) I'd love to have seen her do it. Of course, we know MANY at CNN have spoken out

against tRump's fake "town hall." They are shamed and angry. Amanpour did in a thoroughly professional manner.

And their support of the moderator, "kneecapped" by CNN, may just have saved or protected her career -- at least at CNN -- by not allowing Licht to put the blame on her. "A rising star" before, she still is -- she's jusst been given CNN's prime 9 p.m. time slot.

[BlackSkimmer]

18. K and r.

Love Amanpour.

[NotVeryImportant]

19. Amanpour is an international treasure, but not even she can save CNN.

Best thing she can do is leave that Godforsaken place.

[Takket]

20. CNN hosted a campain rally, not a town hall

[Act_of_Reparation]

21. Bingo

It was a cynical ratings grab half-assedly presented as "objective journalism".

[Cha]

22. Great.. TY, Christiane Amanpour@!

shows up what a grovel bot KC was.

[Skittles]

24. THIS

*THIS* is how self-respecting, honorable professional should respond.....LISTEN AND LEARN, ANDERSON