Good day all. Now that the Skydance/Warner Brothers deal has finally closed, much to the anguish of the Hollywierd moonbats such as Mark Ruffalo, things appear to have started changing at CNN.
I don’t watch CNN, although I do occasionally use their web site as a source for information. (Can’t hang out only on the Alternative News sites) I have been reading and watching how the On Air personalities have been reacting to the news that their days of being shills for the Democrat party are coming to an end. At best, you can see blind panic with classic deer in the headlights look on their faces. At worst? People are starting to leave. One such person is Christiane Amanpour. She has announced she is retiring. Here are the details from Fox News:
Veteran CNN International anchor Christiane Amanpour announced Monday she’s leaving the network next summer after more than four decades at the network.
“After more than 43 years at CNN, Christiane has decided that the time is right to begin a new chapter,” CNN CEO Mark Thompson told staffers in a memo. “Early in 2027, she will scale back her CNN International show, ‘Amanpour,’ to once a week. The program will conclude in May, and she will leave CNN at the end of June.”
“Christiane has thought carefully about this decision, and she and I have been discussing it for some months. Like so many CNNers who will hear the news today, I’m very sorry to see her go, but I’ve come to accept that this is the right time for her, both personally and professionally,” Thompson wrote.
43 years is a long time, almost back to the beginning of CNN. However, I suspect that there may be a bit more to it then just closing out a long career.
While the 68-year-old journalist is revered among her CNN colleagues and members of the liberal media, she has her critics as well. As she referenced in her statement, Amanpour rejects the notion of neutrality when it comes to reporting, insisting the truth should remain the north star.
“Both-siderism — on the one hand, on the other hand — is not always objectivity. It does not get you to the truth,” Amanpour told graduates at the Columbia Journalism School in 2023. “Drawing false, moral or factual equivalence is neither objective or truthful. Objectivity is our golden rule. And it is in weighing all the sides and all the evidence hearing everyone reporting everything, but not rushing to equate them when there is no equating and look at the damage that that has done in the climate debate, in the political arena and in the field of battle.”
If I ever watched Amanpour, I don’t recall. It’s been at least 20 years since I last watched CNN, probably during the coverage of Afghanistan and Iraq. I do remember that Amanpour was notorious for mixing her political outlook into her reporting. She’s basically a Leftist and pushed a progressive, generally anti-American agenda. Her concept of “The Truth,” seems to have been whatever she decided it was. Her comment that you can’t remain neutral and get the truth is garbage.
Her coverage of the Israel-Hamas war and her past commentary have also raised eyebrows. Amanpour claimed in October 2023, just weeks after the terrorist attack on Israel, “the rest of the world” agreed with Jordanian Queen Rania Al Abdullah’s complaint that the Western world shows more support for Israel than the Palestinians.
She also reported that third-party negotiators were trying to implement a “hostage release on both sides,” implying Israel, too, is keeping civilian hostages and not just the Hamas terrorists. Earlier in the year, she was forced to apologize after she claimed the murder of an Israeli rabbi’s family was the result of a “shootout.”
It isn’t just her apparent pro-terrorist reporting, or more accurately, editorializing, she also hates President Trump. Of course, that was, up until recently, almost a job requirement to work at CNN.
In November 2020, she was condemned by the Israeli government and the Anti-Defamation League for comparing the Trump presidency to Kristallnacht, known as the “Night of Broken Glass” when Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria, resulting in at least 91 deaths and 7,500 Jewish businesses vandalized during the Holocaust. Amanpour walked back her comments following the intense backlash.
Amanpour is the first big name to announce her “Retirement” from CNN. I don’t recall her making any public comments on the Skydance takeover, and a quick check of Grok indicates she hasn’t made very many. The very few that I’ve found seem to indicate she really wasn’t happy. Grok pointed me to a story in the Guardian where she referred to the Skydance takeover of Paramount and what is going on with CBS.
“I mean, do I have to list what’s happening there? I mean, hemorrhaging viewers, probably hemorrhaging money. This ideological realignment of CBS and the destruction, potentially of 60 Minutes … I mean, nobody can match 60 Minutes for a brilliant television magazine show that’s been doing hard news and cultural news for decades – top-rated, top money-maker for the network. So clearly, obviously, I’m concerned. I would like to think that we would have the very basic, which is editorial independence. I’m hoping for that. I know many of us at CNN are incredibly – including leadership – are very, very committed to that, clearly. And I don’t think I need to say more than that.”
There have been changes at CBS News since Bari Weiss was put in charge of the news division. As for 60 Minutes, Amanpour may think they are brilliant. The problem is they aren’t. Their credibility is virtually nonexistent. However, there have been some changes along with changes at CBS News and from what I’ve read, their ratings are actually going up. It’s going to take years to repair the News divisions credibility, but it does appear they are moving in the right direction, for a change.
While I doubt that Amanpour was pushed out, I don’t think she would like working under the Ellison’s and the team they will bring in. Without question, they would have clamped down on her editorializing in her reporting. We already seeing this happen at CBS with several people being fired or not having their contracts renewed. I think that Amanpour saw the writing on the wall and decided to leave on her own. I really don’t think she’s going to be missed.
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