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Christiane Amanpour to ABC?

DToTheJ said:
She's been mentioned as a candidate to host "This Week" - but some at the network think she is "too liberal" for the job.

Full story:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/33990.html
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WOW! When network folks think that she's too liberal for the job, she must be somewhere just to the left of Nikita Khrushchev! :eek:

It was always clear to me that she carried a significant personal bias to the left which seems quite obvious from watching the manner in which she reports stories.

For a show like "This Week", you need someone who is very professional. Sure, we all have biases to one side or another. George Stephanopoulus, a well-known democrat, tried pretty hard to be balanced when he hosted "This Week", though he was not perfect at it. Now that he's on GMA, he seems more apt to spin certain stories leftward than he did at "This Week".

However, I'd say that the best example of someone who's professionalism went far beyond his personal opinions was the late Tim Russert. Tim was a democrat, but he was also very balanced, fair and professional at all times. This is the example that ABC should keep in mind when searching to someone to host "This Week". Not some radical who is sympathetic with for the "plight" of the Taliban and who embraces every leftist thug that she meets.
 
I don't think it matters what the host's political viewpoint is, as long as he or she is willing to take a hard "Take No BS" stance with whomever they interview.

For example: yesterday, HHS Secretary Cathleen Sibelius was on both Meet the Press and This Week to talk about health care. I have no idea what David Gregory's political views are, but he was much harder on Sibelius than Matt Dowd was on This Week - and Dowd is very conservative, and a former aide and speechwriter to George W. Bush.
 
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