Great comment by Christiane Amanpour

[chowder66]

Christiane Amanpour knows the score. And it's not 50-50. At a celebration of her 40 years in the business,
@oliverdarcy
asked her what assignment has left the biggest imprint. Read her reply.

"It was genocide," Amanpour bluntly recalled, adding that covering the
humanitarian crisis that unfolded in the country led her to adopt her
trademark "be truthful, but not neutral" motto on journalism."

"I was witnessing, along with my colleagues, who the aggressors were," she
explained. "There was no equivalence either factually or morally. And I didn't
present any equivalence. There was no, 'On the one hand, on the other hand.'
In situations of gross violations of human rights ... you cannot be neutral
because then you are an accomplice. All of that came to me, and I distilled it
into, 'We have to be truthful, not neutral."

"And it applies to everything," Amanpour added. "Whether you're covering
Donald Trump, whether you're covering the climate crisis, whatever you're
covering - you absolutely have to be truthful, which does not mean
unobjective. Objective means cover all sides. It does not mean come to the
same judgment about all sides."

Link to tweet

[MutantAndProud]

1. Absolutely Christane, still one of the best news analysts

[ailsagirl]

15. ...

[Jarqui]

2. America would be in much better shape today if more of its journalists

followed Christiane Amanpour's advice.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

7. Hour With Amanpour in America...instead of hour of empty speaker podium... different future!

[brush]

3. Now that's what I call a journalist..."truthful but not neutral."

None of that false equivalency, OTOH crap.

[SouthernDem4ever]

4. or "whatabout........."

Same BS.

[brush]

5. Yes.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. American corporate media will swiftly not have any mention of this!!

A true journalist that American corporate bosses would never let into America to cover American politics with the same passion for truth…and clear compass for justice.

CNN International was/is the CNN Domestic that America needed/needs.

Would definitely not have focus network cameras live on an empty speech podium for an hour….in silence, no ads…dice cast in plain view, in hindsight.

Compare to American mass media, for a moment, if you will…

And pray.

[elleng]

8. She's truly one of the great ones,

#3 for me nightly after NewsHour, Rachel and Lawrence.

[lastlib]

17. I consider her the Walter Cronkite of the 21st century.

She tells it "the way it is" without embellishment or flourish. Every journalist wannabe would do well to take lessons from her.

[burrowowl]

9. Amanpour and company is

a must watch on PBS she does excellent interviews

[Hortensis]

10. Had to look it up: It was Bosnia.

“You don’t want to go to the cocktail parties. You don’t want to be liked. You don’t want to rub shoulders,” Amanpour said, calling access journalism “the road to perdition” for journalists. “Your job is not that. You need to be able to hold them constantly accountable.”

[July]

13. Somebody send this quote to David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, and a host of others. nt

[Hortensis]

14. :) Those'd probably take it as fan mail. nt

[Mosby]

11. What assignment was she referring to?

Anyone know?

[chowder66]

12. Looks like Bosnia.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

16. Her philosophy probably explains why she doesn't have the old Charlie Rose timeslot on PBS

He made me crazy by talking out of both sides of his mouth. Or feigning ignorance over climate change. He was clearly cozy with the powerful.

[Farmer-Rick]

18. She is a true journalist

Just think of all the money she must have turned down in order for her to be journalist. You know Fox or CNN would have loved to add her name to their lineup. But only if she were willing to lie and be bought to say what they want.

[Johnny2X2X]

19. Both Siderism journalism got us into this mess we are in.

It's been years and year of both siderism, especially after the Right labeled the media the "Liberal Media." They've been bending over backwards for decades now.

And it was incrementally more ridiculous until we get now, where Donald Trump was impeached twice, once for being on tape asking a foreign country to interfere with our elections, and once for trying to overthrow our democracy, but that is going to be equated to Joe Biden's upcoming impeachment for literally nothing.

[Kath2]

20. I've been following her for years.

Too bad more journalists don't share her philosophy.

[Takket]

21. She's a dying breed unfortunately

Journalism today just means giving the right a platform to spread their bullshit and blaming Democrats for the results.

[ck4829]

22. K&R

[flamingdem]

23. Enjoyed her show last night

Prof Sharma on the vaccine

[Snackshack]

24. Silence is compliance.