Christiane Amanpour Brags About Bias: ‘I Insist on Being Truthful, Not Neutral’

We’ve noticed!

CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour isn’t ashamed to brag about her bias as a journalist. The veteran reporter released a video on Thursday declaring herself to be “truthful, not neutral.”

“I learned a long time ago when I was first confronted with outrageous behavior in places like the Balkans when one side was slaughtering another because of its ethnic and religious definition,” Amanpour said. “I learned that as a journalist, I could not be morally equivalent and nor could I present false factual equivalence. I insist on being truthful, not neutral.”

Here’s the video:

TruthRevolt has often featured Amanpour’s “not neutral-ness.” During her coverage of Nelson Mandela’s memorial in South Africa in 2013, Amanpour said, “I honestly can’t help but think right now about Israel and the Palestinians.”

“Benjamin Netanyahu is under so much pressure these days and probably feels to a great extent his country is isolated in the same way that apartheid South Africa was isolated,” she added. 

That's not neutral, nor truthful, as she failed to mention how all races and faiths in Israel have the same rights and many prime ministers including Netanyahu have called for a Palestinian state, yet, not one Palestinian has ever called for the recognition of the Jewish State.

Amanpour wasn’t “truthful” when reporting on Brexit when she said it was “white identity” and “xenophobia,” not democracy, that was behind Britain’s vote to exit the European Union.

Nor was Amanpour being “truthful” when she and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman figured out that the biggest problem in America is the “large fraction” of racists who support Donald Trump.

Amanpour’s audience was compelled to comment on her admission via Facebook:

“CNN full of propaganda and lies! The coverage of the Balkan conflict was one big fat lie for Nato and there so called new world order interests just like the Arab spring and Ukraine! What a world we live in !!!”

“Really now you are bragging about being biased? They should teach ethics to journalists.”

“You ought to be BOTH. Journalism is completely dead as a form of factual information. Stop telling us WHAT to think. That is not your job.”

“You are definitely not truthful or neutral !!!!!!!”

But she has her fans, too:

“Ms. Amanpour, thank you for your dedication to REAL journalism.”

“you are the Best Christiane, always watch you almost every day... good Job.”

Apparently your definition of "REAL journalism" depends on whether or not Amanpour's "neutrality" aligns with your bias.

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