Amanpour Done At CNN?

[DToTheJ]

Sources say that Christiane Amanpour has been "butting heads" with ABC News higher-ups, amid reports that she's doing "miserable" at anchor of "This Week." Naturally, a spokesperson for ABC says he/she "I just got off the phone with Christiane, she says that’s total nonsense. She’s very happy at ABC News. She’s not going anywhere" - even if that "anywhere" is back to her old network, CNN.

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/amanpour_back_to_cnn_AlDfAUNzC3WFnVak1HruFI#ixzz1bzBKHHq7

 

[bpatrick]

Being "happy at ABC News" has nothing to do with her ability
to anchor "This Week," and from what I've seen and heard,
I think Bob Schieffer outclasses all his competitors on Sunday
morning.

 

[KeithE4]

Being "happy at ABC News" has nothing to do with her ability to anchor "This Week," and from what I've seen and heard, I think Bob Schieffer outclasses all his competitors on Sunday morning.

Christiane Amanpour is out of her element anchoring This Week. Having her anchor a Sunday morning political babble-fest is akin to Tom Brady being the Patriots' starting Middle Linebacker. A competent professional being put in the wrong job.

And I agree on Schieffer, but David Gregory does a good job on Meet the Press.

 

[TheBigA]

Re: Amanpour Done At ABC?

Fixed the subject line.

I watched her last weekend, and I can see why she's having trouble. For years, she was known as an international reporter. Now she's talking Presidential politics. She seems out of her element. The accent doesn't help. A great reporter doesn't always make a great host, and there's a reason why a lot of great reporters have stayed in the field, eschewing the studio.

 

[LKellerIII]

Amanpour is doing better, but I agree that she's out of her element. Too bad, too - because her work at CNN was first rate.

IMO - ABC should have stuck with Jake Tapper, who was doing most of the fill-in anchor work on This Week after Stephanopoulous left.

 

[KyDXIn]

Being "happy at ABC News" has nothing to do with her ability to anchor "This Week," and from what I've seen and heard, I think Bob Schieffer outclasses all his competitors on Sunday morning.

Christiane Amanpour is out of her element anchoring This Week. Having her anchor a Sunday morning political babble-fest is akin to Tom Brady being the Patriots' starting Middle Linebacker. A competent professional being put in the wrong job.

And I agree on Schieffer, but David Gregory does a good job on Meet the Press.

Here is a prediction: Luke Russert will one day be host of "Meet the Press."

 

[kilamanjero]

I knew this from jump. I felt that Christiane Amanpour wasn't going to fit on This Week at all. I enjoyed her on CNN discussing the international affairs and such, but domestic politics isn't her forte at all. Jake Tapper should have been the host and allow Christiane to get back to CNNI where she is at home.

 

[nathannah]

Alot of ABC News's moves over the last three years have been confusing. I used to watch ABC News all the time. But with the addition of Lara Spencer to GMA (who adds nothing at all to whatever she hosts), the entire chaos about ABC not banning or charging Chris Brown with criminal damage in order to preserve his DWTS guest spot, their alarming tabloid direction, all the mess of them trying to book interviews and play catch-up with "Today" and the downgrading of what had been the sterling American news organization to something that operates out of a studio the size of that of an average station in the Midwest because of their budget, they've lost me. Katie Couric just clinched it for me, along with horrible lead story choices for World News involving crap that belongs confined to HLN. I'm over to CBS now.

Amanpour is an international correspondent at her heart; unfortunately ABC is no longer known for their international reporting and is content for the BBC to cover Europe and Nine Australia for Asia, and politics has gotten too nasty for a show like she brings.

Being "happy at ABC News" has nothing to do with her ability to anchor "This Week," and from what I've seen and heard, I think Bob Schieffer outclasses all his competitors on Sunday morning.

Christiane Amanpour is out of her element anchoring This Week. Having her anchor a Sunday morning political babble-fest is akin to Tom Brady being the Patriots' starting Middle Linebacker. A competent professional being put in the wrong job.

And I agree on Schieffer, but David Gregory does a good job on Meet the Press.

Here is a prediction: Luke Russert will one day be host of "Meet the Press."

Agreed; I don't watch MSNBC all that often but he has quickly established himself as one of the rising reporters of NBC News. I say by the time David Gregory retires, he moves into his dad's chair.

 

[LKellerIII]

Despite the prematurely gray hair, David Gregory is only 41, so I doubt he'll be retiring anytime soon.

 

[recto101]

I never saw Amanpour as a great host for This Week. Amanpour is a great reporter in International issues like the Death of Bin Laden and Gadhafi but she never fit in US Politics like GMA George Stephanopolus. George Stephanopolus is a great host on This Week or on World News but he does not fit on GMA.

Alot of ABC News's moves over the last three years have been confusing. I used to watch ABC News all the time. But with the addition of Lara Spencer to GMA (who adds nothing at all to whatever she hosts), the entire chaos about ABC not banning or charging Chris Brown with criminal damage in order to preserve his DWTS guest spot, their alarming tabloid direction, all the mess of them trying to book interviews and play catch-up with "Today" and the downgrading of what had been the sterling American news organization to something that operates out of a studio the size of that of an average station in the Midwest because of their budget, they've lost me. Katie Couric just clinched it for me, along with horrible lead story choices for World News involving crap that belongs confined to HLN. I'm over to CBS now.

Amanpour is an international correspondent at her heart; unfortunately ABC is no longer known for their international reporting and is content for the BBC to cover Europe and Nine Australia for Asia, and politics has gotten too nasty for a show like she brings.

Being "happy at ABC News" has nothing to do with her ability to anchor "This Week," and from what I've seen and heard, I think Bob Schieffer outclasses all his competitors on Sunday morning.

Christiane Amanpour is out of her element anchoring This Week. Having her anchor a Sunday morning political babble-fest is akin to Tom Brady being the Patriots' starting Middle Linebacker. A competent professional being put in the wrong job.

And I agree on Schieffer, but David Gregory does a good job on Meet the Press.

Here is a prediction: Luke Russert will one day be host of "Meet the Press."

Agreed; I don't watch MSNBC all that often but he has quickly established himself as one of the rising reporters of NBC News. I say by the time David Gregory retires, he moves into his dad's chair.

The problem with ABC News today is that they are going in the direction of TMZ & HLN. Just 5 years ago when Charles Gibson had the World News seat the newscast was seen as being too Washington Centered and when Peter Jennings had the World News seat it was doing more international stories. I bounce between BBC News and PBS News hour and CBS Evening News with Pelley now.

 

[recto101]

I noticed something strange with ABC News I noticed ABC does less international stories but the local ABC O&O KGO-TV in San Francisco does more international stories under the Assignment 7 name such as when members of the KGO-TV crew followed the California Academy of Sciences of San Francisco with a report saying that the Philippines has the highest biodiversity in East Asia but with lots of species endangered because of overfishing and pollution by China and local poachers in the Philippines.