Amanpour Interrupted On Air; Man Speaks Truth On Iraq (VIDEO)

[Mark Williams]

CNN Video Link

While Christiane Amanpour is discussing the London terror attacks a man passing by breaks in and speaks truth to the camera. The man screams "tell the truth about what happened" and then screams "They're in Iraq, that’s why it happened. There were 50 killed in Iraq".

Christiane Amanpour is a true journalist and responded calmly and professionally to the situation. Kudos to the man for trying to get his voice heard on international TV!

[ooglymoogly]

1. christiane is one of the last honest journalists

and she handled it like a pro. everybody seems to just pretend that the killing in iraq has nothing to do with it. no wonder we are in deep doo doo.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Unbelieveable. Honest journalism has to come from the streets.

[ispeculate]

3. I hate to say it but the brits are just plain smarter than us...

overall they are not as gullible. It is unlikely you will see an episode like that one here in the US.

[ispeculate]

Oh and by the way...did you notice the way they pan out at the end

of the video clip? Why do they do that?

I'm glad you asked.

The reason they do that is....

IT IS A MIND CONTROL TECHNIQUE to get you to disassociate from what you are seeing.

This is a technique that I learned while studying Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Hypnosis.

[chalky]

25. Very sneaky. And thanks for pointing that out.

I'm going to keep an eye out for this technique being used in the future.

(By the way...why doesn't your post have a number next to it? Is something freaky going on with DU again?)

[Sparkly]

6. That is true. Is it related to the media?

I know BBC is more reliable than our media, but what about the rest?

My hunch is there's nothing to compare with the rightwing takeover we've had here.

[TheDebbieDee]

10. It's because they still have a free press in the UK.

We used to have a free press here in America.....it was one of the things that made us great!

Now all we have is a bunch of propagandists parading around with journalists badges, telling us the stuff that *co wants us to hear.

[Cha]

12. They get REAL NEWS too..so

we have to give big Kudos to the journalists and the media in England.

Wonder of wonders ...they aren't in the mediawhore business like the Corporate Americanmedia. I bet they figure it will be better for their lives and country in the long run.

Thanks to the few in the American media who are reporting the truth. That means you Helen Thomas..and many thanks to the tireless journalists on the World Wide Web!

:toast: the Net!

I really admire the English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, too..the whole British Isles. Must be something in their Air!

[snot]

34. Sorry, but the BBC just suffered a potentially fatal blow . . .

which I tried but failed to elicit attention to here and elsewhere . . .

They just went through a batch of changes pursuant to which (1) the PM (Tony Blair) now has the power to select all the trustees who evaluate the BBC performance; (2) various BBC productions are to be "privatized" (think how well that's worked for us in Iraq!); (3) 4,000 jobs were cut; etc. You can find more info here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=319&topic_id=81

[tenshi816]

36. The BBC is the national publicly-funded broadcaster

of the UK (meaning that we, the viewing public, are required to pay an annual licence fee to watch television) and the people who run it have always been appointed by the government in power at any given time. This is nothing new. It has always been the case while the Corporation was run by a Board of Governors, and it will remain the case when it is run by a Trust.

Because the BBC is funded by the viewers, budgets are fixed accordingly and so the loss of jobs isn't necessarily sinister - the BBC can only spend the money it receives from licence fees, and viewers have been complaining about the BBC wasting money for years. This explains privatising productions as well - if an outside company can produce a quality show for less money than can be done in-house, then I'm all for it. There's been far too much dross on our screens for the last few years.

If there's a decline in BBC news reportage, then there will be cause for concern, but there's no point in looking for problems where none exist yet.

Edited for spelling.

[snot]

46. I'm glad for real info, since no one else has clarified for me, but

Was it actually the P.M. who got to appoint the governors?

[tenshi816]

47. Well, not all by his lonesome,

any more than the Dumbass gets to do absolutely everything he wants to do when it comes to passing new laws (although it sure does seem like it sometimes).

With the BBC, the people in charge of running it are appointed by the government, which isn't the same as saying Tony Blair makes all the decisions based solely on personal whims of his. He's the prime minister, not a "supreme leader". What Tony wants ain't necessarily what Tony gets.

When it comes to the BBC, the licence payers (like me and everyone else who owns a television in the country) are basically shareholders in the Corporation. We don't have a choice about paying our licence fee, and the government has to respect that if the BBC is going to continue - which it will (and it will continue, in my opinion, to be the best news organisation in the world).

Edited to say that it's really nice of you to be concerned in the first place. I hadn't had a look at the green paper myself until you pointed it out, and it's good to know about these things. Thanks very much.

[snot]

48. Thanks. I think the BBC is incredibly impt.--

--in letters I sent re- my concerns, I called it the consciousness and conscience of the planet. I've actually got it in my will.

[ElectroPrincess]

24. That's because they have at least a "semblance" of a free press n/t

[ooglymoogly]

41. they have not been dummed down by a corporate media

but the fix is in.

[Bluebear]

4. ALWAYS a class act she is.

"This is important," she adlibs, "the war in Iraq is VERY VERY unpopular here."

[peacetalksforall]

5. The man was right. He would vomit if he had to listen to the flood of

propaganda that was dumped on us since Thursday. All the stuff about how they resent us. They are piling it on and it it nauseating. The more they pile, the more we need truth tellers like that man.

Now we know what it was like in the USSR.

Corporate propaganda networks and print with the help of reverends are stuffing it down the throats of everyone who believes Bush is the lord.

[kenny blankenship]

11. what it was like in the USSR.

Now we know what it was like in the USSR.

Just about, except there in the USSR the people knew that the media was state controlled and they knew that they received only one approved view of events and one approved set of facts. It wasn't a secret. They didn't have to figure it out and make themselves aware of this. They weren't surrounded, as we are, by the illusion of many outlets for news and opinion, all of them broadcasting the views and the single permitted version of the facts on behalf of one very small, self-interested class of society. In that sense the readers of Pravda and Tass were luckier than we are because the bullshit they faced was much more transparent.

They had one up on us in this sense: since they could rely on their state-owned press always lying to them, they at least could know what was definitely 100% false. We can't say even that much for ourselves, since our news media is able to spend most of its time distracting us with the usual litany of shark attacks, missing imperiled white women and celebrity bullshit and seems to feel no obligation to actually cover news events and stories, foreign or domestic.

[PATRICK]

23. And Pravda

like the Communists had a bent to try to appeal to the intelligentsia, to indoctrinate and seduce the brain.

In the US despite the pretense of celeb pundits who are insufferably sumb or ill-informed, it is bread and circuses for the lowest common denominator- always. One of the true strengths in the US media is not allowing facts or thoughts into the propaganda at all, but an easily digested emoticon game to set national trends in believing or being concerned about anything.

Hopefully with a buck in it because the lure of greed is more powerful than the pursuit of political ideals.

[pstans]

7. If anything is going to change

it is going to come from the streets.

Thanks you, proud, brave man from Britain.

:yourock:

[Sparkly]

8. Man from Britain: We stand with you!

:thumbsup:

[dalloway]

9. recommended

[BrklynLiberal]

13. That would NEVER have made it to the screen in the US!!

That man would be in GITMO before him family even knew he was missing.

[skooooo]

14. But it was on CNN here?

So they did show it, right?

[flpoljunkie]

17. Yes, it was. And I don't think it was a live show.

[splat@14]

27. Why not? Just curious. I saw it when it aired and while I realize there

is a tape delay of a few seconds, still, it looked real Vs staged. Christiana remarked heavily after the interruption that the war in Iraq is not very favorable over there.

[flpoljunkie]

38. Only because CNN displays the word LIVE on their live broadcasts. Amanpour

probably insisted that it not be cut. She certainly handled the man's reaction with aplomb by saying he was certainly not alone among Londoners who blame the Iraq war for the terrorist bombings.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

15. Please All Dear Britons, find the US camaras and do the same!

Inspirational!

Edited to thank Mark Williams too!

[Burried News]

31. One of the first interviews of 9/11 was a NYC firefighter.

He told the audience "we don't want your war over here - keep your war's in the Middle East". That footage was never shown again, because it was too close to the point that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was spilling over to the US. At the time the media stayed as far away as possible from any concept that our failure to be an honest broker could be a motivator for terrorism.

[Mark Williams]

16. CORRECTED VIDEO LINK

I fucked up the URL so here is the new VIDEO LINK.

I would correct it myself but the editing time has expired. If a mod could fix the link, it would be greatly appreciated.

The new link is:
http://www.dembloggers.com/story/2005/7/9/175847/3787

[bear425]

18. 1st link doesn't work, but the 2nd one does. Thanks for posting.

I love Chris Amanpour. Grace under fire, always.

[Mark Williams]

19. sorry

sorry about the first link. I accidentally deleted the story and I had to repost it.

[bear425]

21. No apology necessary. Again, thanks for posting the video. n/t

[otohara]

32. That Argument "We've Been Here Before"

most of the WWII crowd is either retired or departed, probably not riding the busses and trains - so stop saying that!

[Conservativesux]

35. Many of us remember what our WWII elders passed along to us so...

there is no doubt as to the road that we are going down, is there ?

Lies, coverups and massive abuses: what do you think is next on the list, going by the playbook written 60 years ago?

We got us another war to fight, folks, so lets all pull together and kick * and his gang out of the WH, for starters!!

[emcguffie]

44. They've still had many, many IRA bombings. NT

[SoCalDem]

20. Notice how often CNN has its reporters interview each other?

That goofball Richard Qwest kept repeating the "power surge" story for a LONG time after the bus blew up..

A real reporter should be allowed to actually interview people on the streets...not another CNN employee...

All the current "shows" do this.. they have a regular cadre of "experts" and each other..there's never anything REAL being reported, and occasionally when it happens, people are shocked to hear/see a REAL opinion:)

Love it !

[high density]

22. Side note: Kyra Phillips needs to tone down a lot on the makeup (NM)

[senseandsensibility]

29. She is the ultimate

* corporate mouthpiece. She cheerled up to the war, and throughout while "embedded" with her masters. Her "stories" were ridiculous fluff pieces. But even before the war, even before 9-11 for that matter, she was an expert at conveying disgust at anyone who dared to question *. She began cooing about him shortly after he stole it in 2000, and apparently is still hard at it.:puke: She is truly disgusting, makeup or no.

[Cocoa]

26. I wonder who tried to grab him

someone grabbed his hand but he got free, said "don't you touch my (something?)..."

[tenshi816]

37. I thought it sounded like "don't you touch my bike" -

could that be it?

[adarling]

28. i love her

she makes me feel like there is some good left out there, she is an awesome journalist. If it was someone like bimbo katie couric interviewing and having been interrupted, i am sure she would have had a heart attack and sprayed the man with mace

[snowbear]

30. Christiane Amanpour (and her husband) ROCK !

She is definitely.. bar none.. the BEST correspondent CNN has!!

:bounce:

[wake.up.america]

33. Christiane is proof that it can happen! She is my favorite.

CNN's biggest wimp has to be Wolf Blitzer.

I watch the guy on Sunday's Late edition.

Why, because I want to see a news show from the States.

Another punk is Jonathan Mann

[Totally Committed]

45. Christiane Amanpour is a class act all the way,

and probably the last honest broadcast journalist on-air at CNN. The only one who comes close... and this is on days when he decides to ignore the memo, and speak his own mind, is Aaron Brown. Everyone else at CNN sucks out loud.

And, yeah... Christiane's husband, Jamie Rubin, is aces, too!

TC

[Garfield Goose]

39. The man's point was correct

But I don't think the way he choose to get it across was very classy. I know that if someone interferred with my work without permission, or violated my personal space, he would end up missing a few teeth.

[NJCher]

40. if there were other options, I'm sure he'd have chosen them

Just like fighting the Israelis and the U.S., terrorism is what is left.

Interesting that your reaction to someone interfering with your work would be violence. Christianne chose to go with the flow and play on the man's point. Needless to say, the latter is the more professional approach.

The cliches are everywhere. The day of the bombing they interviewed some guy going to work on the subway in NY. He said, "Ya' gotta do what ya' gotta' do." I heard this "gotta' do" cliche' over and over the day of the bombings. Even Christianne's opening on this segment was along that line. She said, "The British people are the British people..." or some such inanity.

Little wonder so few people are watching these days.


Cher

[PuraVidaDreamin]

43. Desperate Times call for Desperate Measures n/t

[dajoki]

42. christiane is the best

her and JFK jr. were roomates in college. here's a link http://www.lifetimetv.com/shows/ip/portraits/0220/0220_index.html google her name and you'll find many fascinating stories.