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• [1] Chris from NJ February 18, 2009 - 12:09PM

  She is so clearly anti-american. I've seen plenty of journalism from other countries that is "black and white".

  
  
• [2] Betty Anne from UES February 18, 2009 - 12:09PM

  Hi Leonard,

  Yesterday you spoke to Azadeh Moaveni and asked her if she felt a media bias for negative stories on Iran in the MSM. Could you ask Christiane this same question?

  Thanks.

  
  
• [3] RA from Connecticut February 18, 2009 - 12:14PM

  Why is CNN International so much more cerebral and sophisticated than CNN here? Why will Christiane's program be on International only? I enjoy CNN when traveling abroad and never watch it here.

  
  
• [4] Chris from NJ February 18, 2009 - 12:16PM

  The main reason the U.S. people don't care about news in other countries is because they can afford not to care. It is true less and less today, but what happens in other countries affects smaller countries much more than it affects the U.S.

  
  
• [5] Zachary from Washington DC February 18, 2009 - 12:19PM

  What do you think the future of career foreign correspondents will be in an age when camera phone's and bloggers are available even in the remote and dangerous regions that are your beat?

  
  
• [6] Sara from Ridgewood February 18, 2009 - 12:23PM

  Can you ask her if she sees any bias in the US media to be pro-Israel?

  
  
• [7] karl from Brooklyn February 18, 2009 - 12:25PM

  It is bizarre that Amanpur and the interviewer are sitting there sucking up to each other talking about how it takes "moral courage" to do a harsh interview.

  
  
• [8] Eddie February 18, 2009 - 12:26PM

  Dear Leonard please read this.

  I know you don't want to hear it but I have to say it.

  a few moments ago that woman shut you up and rightfuly so.

  your biggest problem as an interviewer is that you inject your own opinions into your questions.

  This often a) turns the question simply into a podium for you to state what you think b) derails the guest and causes him/her to lose their train of thought c) derails the direction of the interview usually jarring it away from the thesis of the work the guest has in most cases spent a lifetime doing or researching in order to swirl around the, at times, amaturish understanding that you hold

  what happened in this interview was a perfect example with one twist, instead of being derailed by you injecting your opinion in the question, she told you flatly that you were wrong instead of what most guests do which is tap dance around that you're wrong and try to bring the talk back to where it was right.

  please be more aware of this. listen to the interview again. learn from this. there's no shame in what you've done. but your persistence in doing it often destroys many good interviews.

  
  
• [9] Ash in Manhattan from Manhattan February 18, 2009 - 12:32PM

  I have only just turned on my radio, so I have not heard the content of what has been said so far. But the last time I listened to your show, you were struggling through an interview with Liza Minelli. Content aside (so far), I have been struck by how enormously articulate and clear this woman is. Listening to her speak our language is almost like listening to a brillant piece of music.

  
  
• [10] samir from Bay Ridge February 18, 2009 - 12:32PM

  The next segment "Faking It" would be an apt title for the current guest....lol

  She's such a phony....

  
  
• [11] samir from Bay Ridge February 18, 2009 - 12:34PM

  Article about Amanpour/CNN bias & shoddy reporting

  or as she just called it "stroytelling", lol

  http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=3&x_outlet=14&x_article=1524

  
  
• [12] robert from park slope February 18, 2009 - 12:37PM

  Can you ask your guest if Iranians had strong feelings about Israel (either good or bad) prior to the Islamic revolution?

  
  
• [13] Zachary from Washington DC February 18, 2009 - 12:38PM

  Also, how did Christina break into journalism? What would she recommend to aspiring young journalists who want to cover foreign affairs?

  
  
• [14] Jane from Brooklyn February 18, 2009 - 12:38PM

  Christiane is absolutely right about a lack of international coverage in US. I grew up in Soviet Union, and we had more international news on 2 tv channels than we do here. All one need to do is to BBC news to notice how much time is devoted to countries other than US and Britain.

  I think it creates better citizens of the world out of people.

  And thanks for your reporting, Christiane!

  
  
• [15] Maya from Brooklyn, NY February 18, 2009 - 12:41PM

  I think she's fabulous

  
  
• [16] db from nyc February 18, 2009 - 12:42PM

  ... is it just me, or is she almost always annoying. her "style" of "tough-guy" journalism strikes me as so clichè:

  
  
• [17] db from nyc February 18, 2009 - 12:45PM

  ... she thinks she's fabulous.

  
  
• [18] samir from Bay Ridge February 18, 2009 - 12:49PM

  #16 db

  it's not just you...lol

  can anyone actually name one distinctive element of her reporting...

  it's all about marketing....

  she's no more special than your local blonde weather woman

  but she totally exploits her otherness...

  
  
• [19] samir from Bay Ridge February 18, 2009 - 12:52PM

  i love how she immediately chimed in that her courage award was for MORAL courage

  if only her MORAL courage came close to her ego

  
  
• [20] db from nyc February 18, 2009 - 12:52PM

  samir... totally agree! she's been reading and living too much of her own CNN marketing department press.

  
  
• [21] Jane from Brooklyn February 18, 2009 - 01:00PM

  to DB an Samir:

  it is interesting that lots of guys have a problem with Christiane. There are still plenty of men in US who can't stand a woman with opinions and a lack of fear to state them.

  
  
• [22] db from nyc February 18, 2009 - 01:12PM

  ... what is it in "db from nyc" and "samir from Bay Ridge" that brings you to the conclusion that we are expressing "male" points of view???

  unfortunately, being annoyingly self absorbed is gender independent.

  
  
• [23] samir from Bay Ridge February 18, 2009 - 01:31PM

  #22 - lol db

  you sound like someone with an opinion and a lack of fear to state it,,,

  speaking of misplaced feminist rage....

  this is just appalling:

  Buffalo, NY Man Beheads Wife; Feminists Shrug Their Heads.

  Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light.

  Wonder if AManpour is covering (up) this one...

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123489213059001223.html

  
  
• [24] Eve from Staten Island February 18, 2009 - 01:39PM

  A grammar question...

  A speaker -- an English teacher -- said "We are Acme Company, and Acme Company is we.” Shouldn't that have been "Acme Company is us?"

  Or is the use of "we" in this example actually correct? Is so, why? And is there a way to construct a sentence like this so that the use of the word "we" would be correct?

  Thanks!

  
  
• [25] Joe Adams from Hillsdale, Bergen County,NJ February 18, 2009 - 03:16PM

  To Eve: When you have a copulative verb in your predicate (is, feel etc.) you follow it with a noun or pronoun in the nominative case. (It is I. It was we.) Also, use predicate adjectives, not adverbs. Thus, I feel bad about the accident. (Not I feel badly about the accident.)