If this rumor is true, ABC will have completed the destruction of a respected Sunday-morning news show that started with the late great David Brinkley:
If Amanpour does accept, the long-running Sunday show could he shaken up, according to the report.
Amanpour said she wants to make “This Week” more about foreign affairs and less focused on domestic American politics. If she takes the job, her desire is to do a number of shows each year outside the country. If she takes the post, sources say this would be a complete remaking on the show, a program much more focused on international affairs. What’s more, Amanpour is telling colleagues that she does not wish to move to Washington, D.C., that she’d prefer to remain in New York and travel for the job should she decide to take it.
Given that Amanpour’s career has focused more on international news than Beltway politics, it makes sense that there could be format changes that play upon her strengths.
Since Brinkley’s retirement, it’s been all downhill, starting with Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson, then Stephanopolous. They’ve been trying out a few others since the latter left, including Jake Tapper, who (in my opinion) would have reelevated it significantly. If Amanpour takes over, I know I’ll never watch it again.
Good grief. Christianne Am-an-poor journalist. Yep. ABC will have destroyed their show, and the poor dears, they won’t understand why.
I may have caught it once or twice during the Sam&Cokie era, but whatever pretense at journo cred they could bring to it was blown away when Steppie took over.
David Brinkley was my idea of the ideal journalist, much more so than the over rated Walter Cronkite ever was.
I haven’t watched it for years.
I pretty much quit watching TV on Election Night 2008, except for baseball.
Huh? I only watch Hulu these days, regular tv is for my parents generation.
That said, Ms. Ammanpour is clearly seeking to operate as a front to propagandize to the American people the end of US exceptionalism.
Best comment, if you can call it that, about Ms. Ammanpour was from US soldiers that went into Haiti back in the 90’s. They called her the “angel of death” because you geneally only saw her when/where people were getting killed.
Hey, look at the bright side, Iran and Syria will be happy.
I remember reading a blog post from a milblogger in Iraq a few years ago. I don’t remember who it was and I don’t have a link, but he said she looked much better in person than she does on TV.
What was once just “infotainment” has morphed into 24/7 partisan political TV.
There is a gaping “just the facts” sized hole for a real news service that deals in actual events and not “he said – she said” snark attacks and thinly disguised agit-prop.
I’m wondering why the networks even try to do news anymore? They clearly don’t like or value it (haven’t since early 70’s when they saw it as infotainment not news) – and they have bleed off audence steadaly for decades (since early 70’s when they saw it as infotainment not news).
Perhaps they just like the ability warp minds to their views?
It’s strange that Fox, which is attacked as a rightwing noise machine, actually tries, from what I can see, to present both sides. But I guess that is what makes it a rightwing organization… it actually has some balance.
>== It’s strange that Fox, which is attacked as a rightwing
> noise machine, actually tries, from what I can see, to
> present both sides. ==
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Its also why it gets a pretty even split of conservatives, liberals, independent in its audence (and its audence exceeds all other cable news channels combine).
Course given how left biased all the other news sources are – yuo could expect them to see a neutral as right biased.
😉