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By Eric W. Dolan
Friday, February 4th, 2011 -- 10:26 am
CNN reporter Anderson Cooper admitted Thursday he was "a little bit scared" for his safety after being repeatedly attacked by supporters of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Cooper and his crew were violently attacked by pro-Mubarak forces Wednesday as they tried to make their way through the streets of Cairo. A number of other journalists have reportedly been attacked by pro-Mubarak mobs as well.
"I can't tell you where we are, frankly for our own safety," Cooper said while sitting in a dimly lit room.
"Systematically, we have seen journalists attacked... we would like to be showing you pictures, live pictures, of what's happening in Liberation Square right now, but we can't do that because our cameras have systematically been taken down through threats, through intimidation, through actual physical attacks."
"I don't mind telling you I am a little bit scared, because we frankly don't really know what the next few hours will hold," he added. "And I think there's a lot of people who are scared tonight in Egypt."
ABC's Christiane Amanpour faced similar treatment Wednesday. While trying to talk to Mubarak supporters, she was threatened and told to turn back. Upon retreating, she had the windshield of her car broken with a rock.
"There's a real anti-Western reporter sentiment there," ABC's Robin Roberts noted Thursday. "Is there still that sense?"
"The pro-Mubarak supporters have been against the journalists," Amanpour replied. "Partly this is because the state television, some of the local press, the state press, has been blaming journalists.
"And a statement from the Foreign Ministry was issued overnight saying, this uprising against Mubarak, is, quote, a foreign conspiracy, led by international journalists. So, those people who been aggressive towards us are not the anti-Mubarak demonstrators. They're the pro-regime thugs and agitators that have been sent in to disrupt the protests."
In recent days, reporters have become targets in Egypt. Western journalists have been roughed up by pro-Mubarak demonstrators, and reporters from around the world have been arrested or detained by Egyptian security forces.
As late as Thursday, there were reports that the Egyptian Army had begun to round up journalists, alleging it was for their own protection. Two correspondents from The New York Times were reportedly detained.
The Washington Post also reported having reporters arrested Thursday.
The following video was broadcast on CNN, Feb. 3, 2011 and uploaded by MoxNews.
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Aug 1, 2010 1:57 pm US/Pacific
Christiane Amanpour Takes On ABC News' 'This Week'
NEW YORK (AP) ―
Photo: CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour attends the "Love, Loss, and What I Wore" cast party at Marseille on Nov. 18, 2009, in New York City.
Saying she's "eager to open a window on the world," ABC's Christiane Amanpour has joined the company of Sunday political talk hosts.
Amanpour claimed her role at "This Week" on Sunday, replacing George Stephanopoulos on the show that competes with NBC's "Meet the Press," CBS' "Face the Nation" and "Fox News Sunday."
She appeared comfortable and aggressively inquisitive in her new position.
Guests on her first broadcast were Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Both interviews were pretaped — a double departure from the usual live nature of the Sunday shows.
But mostly the hour format stuck closely to the past.
The second half consisted of the traditional round-table analysis by a trio of familiar faces: journalist George Will, political strategist Donna Brazile and economist Paul Krugman, along with Pakistani journalist and Taliban expert Ahmed Rashid, from Madrid.
"This Week" continues to originate from Washington's Newseum, but the show is newly billed as "from all across our world to the heart of our nation's capital."
"Having witnessed firsthand the global challenges and opportunities that America faces every day, I'm also eager to open a window on the world and cut through those classified issues that we all confront," Amanpour said at the top of the broadcast.
Of course, domestic politics was never too far from the conversation.
"What is it you can do for the (American) people in this highly polarized situation?" Amanpour asked Pelosi.
Pelosi replied that what Amanpour called a highly polarized situation "is a very big difference of opinion. The Republicans are here for the special interests; we're here for the people's interests."
Amanpour, a 52-year-old journalist born in Iran whose specialty is international stories, was a surprise hire by ABC after spending a quarter-century at CNN. She became one of CNN's best-known personalities for her hard-nosed reporting from war zones and other trouble spots.
She gained a high profile as CNN's top international correspondent in the days when there was only one cable news network, reporting from conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, the Balkans and elsewhere.
Since moving to New York several years ago to be with her husband, former U.S. State Department spokesman James Rubin, Amanpour has logged much less airtime. She hosted a daily program for the CNN International network, highlights of which were shown each Sunday afternoon on CNN's domestic network.
Since her hiring by ABC was announced in March, Amanpour has voiced hopes of bringing a more global approach to the domestically focused, often Washington-centric "This Week." She plans to commute to her new job from a home in New York, which seals her credibility as a Washington outsider.
Amanpour was chosen for "This Week" over in-house ABC candidates including Terry Moran and Jake Tapper. Former ABC "Nightline" anchor Ted Koppel also was reportedly considered.
Tapper had filled in as interim host since January. After seven years at "This Week," Stephanopoulos moved to ABC's "Good Morning America," replacing Diane Sawyer, who in December took over the network's "World News Tonight" from retiring anchor Charles Gibson.
Then, "This Week" was ranked second in the ratings behind "Meet the Press," according to the Nielsen Co. But since Stephanopoulos' departure, the program has also been beaten in viewership by "Face the Nation."Aug 1, 2010 1:57 pm US/Pacific
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From Jane Hamsher and Ezra Klein to Kos and Krugman, Tunku Varadarajan counts down the most influential left-wing journalists in the country.
Given that almost four times as many American journalists identify themselves as “liberal” than as “conservative” (thanks, Pew, for that little detail), our exercise in tagging the 25 most influential journalists who sit somewhere to the left of center on the political aisle was considerably more complex than the one last week in which we identified the top 25 on the right. Classifying our journalists as being “on the left” protects us from being derailed by pesky questions of taxonomy—whether someone is “liberal,” “progressive” or “radical”—although everyone on this list could be said, plausibly, to belong to one of those categories. What unites them all, broadly, is their belief (expressed or implied) that “their side” is currently in power in Washington. The list below distills responses canvassed from about 75 academics, politicians, journalists, and denizens of corporate America. (It may interest readers to know that I edited a similar list, days after Barack Obama’s inauguration as president, for Forbes. Whereas the two lists have a good deal in common, there are significant differences, most of which reflect the fact that the left no longer sees itself as being “in opposition.”) Our definition of “journalist” is a loose one, and may not please some J-school pedants: We include anyone whose primary vocation is to supply, edit, host, or curate information, news reporting, criticism, or opinion. To keep matters from getting messy, we have excluded any writer or editor whose primary affiliation is with The Daily Beast, though a couple of contributors appear.
Here, in ascending order, is The Daily Beast’s list of America’s 25 most consequential left-of-center journalists.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-17/the-lefts-top-25-journalists/?cid=hp:excFrom Jane Hamsher and Ezra Klein to Kos and Krugman, Tunku Varadarajan counts down the... more
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