CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Added To List Of Possible This Week Anchors

by Steve Krakauer | 5:31 pm, March 5th, 2010

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The guest hosting carousel at This Week continues Sunday with political analyst Matthew Dowd.

Now Politico reports on a new name added to the growing list of possible anchors – CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

Michael Calderone reports:

Still searching for a permanent host for “This Week,” ABC News is in talks with Christiane Amanpour, the CNN foreign correspondent known more for globe-trotting reporting than talking politics within the Beltway.

Amanpour, through a CNN spokesperson, declined to comment, but sources with knowledge of the hiring process say she’s now in the mix of internal and external candidates.

ABC wouldn’t comment either but told Calderone the network “talked to lots of people inside and outside.” That’s an understatement. So far, my money’s still on Terry Moran, with Jake Tapper as the #2 choice. But from within ABC, Jon Karl, Elizabeth Vargas and Barbara Walters have all guest hosted, and Gwen Ifill‘s name has been thrown out as a possibility as well (so has Ted Koppel‘s but that appears to no longer be an option).

We asked former MSNBC General Manager and current disclosure-worthy interviewee Dan Abrams for his take on a potential outsider like Amanpour taking the job:

ABC is in a tough spot. At every network, the Washington team believes they “know politics” and have better political contacts than anyone else. So if they go outside of ABC News for This Week, they may inherit a great host along with a major morale problem.

Calderone tweets Tapper will be back as anchor on March 14. And it continues…

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MichelleF

Perfect candidate, she’s a liberal hack!
the real john t

@ MichelleF

Christiane Amanpour has covered more news stories in more counrties than any of your Fox heros would ever dream of.
Olby Sucks

Even if that were true does that make her any better, t-bone? This woman clearly rooted for the enemy during the Bush yrs. Deplorable.
ImNotBlue

the real john t says:
March 6, 2010 at 12:13 am

And that’s relevant how? This is a news and politics program… not the Travel Channel.
the real john t

ImNotBlue says:
March 6, 2010 at 12:48 am
the real john t says:
March 6, 2010 at 12:13 am

And that’s relevant how? This is a news and politics program… not the Travel Channel.
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Christiane Amanpour has been in war zones, and all over the world covering news stories. How many has your heros O’Reilly and Hannity ever covered?
ImNotBlue

the real john t says:
March 6, 2010 at 1:24 am

Christiane Amanpour has been in war zones, and all over the world covering news stories. How many has your heros O’Reilly and Hannity ever covered?

Well, that doesn’t really answer my question, does it? O’Reilly has been all over the world as well, and Hannity… well, I think he’s been over in the war zones as well. Does that mean you think they’re also qualified to host the show?

Personally… I’m not sure why you want to ALWAYS talk about O’Reilly and Hannity. Try to stay on topic… I know you’re big on calling other people out for that… so I’m surprised your unrelated comment slipped past your personal filter.

Anyway… the point is you need more than “world traveler” on your resume to be a host of this show. She might make for an excellent or well qualified foreign correspondent… but the host of a news and politics show, which often doesn’t focus on over-seas activities, rather that which is within our borders, is not necessarily the most relevant qualification.
the real john t

ImNotBlue says:

Try to stay on topic…
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HUH, Christiane Amanpour is the topic of this this thread in case you missed it. You know you should really try harder to not make yourself look more foolish.
ImNotBlue

the real john t says:
March 6, 2010 at 1:47 am

ImNotBlue says:
Try to stay on topic…
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HUH, Christiane Amanpour is the topic of this this thread in case you missed it. You know you should really try harder to not make yourself look more foolish.

So… you didn’t say this?

the real john t says:
March 6, 2010 at 1:24 am

Christiane Amanpour has been in war zones, and all over the world covering news stories. How many has your heros O’Reilly and Hannity ever covered?

Bringing in “O’Reilly” and “Hannity,” even though they were unrelated to the story?

Man… I sure did think that was you…

You know you should really try harder to not make yourself look more foolish.

Yeah… that’s what I should try to do.
the real john t

@ ImNotBlue

Like I said, you should try a little bit harder to not make yourself look so foolish.
ImNotBlue

the real john t says:
March 6, 2010 at 2:08 am

Is this your way of saying, “Hey stupid… I’m not going to admit I’m wrong, I’m just an agitator! I’m just trying to be annoying. You proved your point, everyone can see it. Leave me alone… don’t waste your time with me. I’m not worth it.”?

Hmm… you may be onto something.
the real john t

ImNotBlue says:
March 6, 2010 at 2:15 am
the real john t says:
March 6, 2010 at 2:08 am

Is this your way of saying, “Hey stupid… I’m not going to admit I’m wrong, I’m just an agitator! I’m just trying to be annoying. You proved your point, everyone can see it. Leave me alone… don’t waste your time with me. I’m not worth it.”?
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Boy, aren’t you good at putting words in someones mouth. Now if you would like to debtate the the topic of this thread then have at it.
ImNotBlue

the real john t says:
March 6, 2010 at 2:20 am

Boy, aren’t you good at putting words in someones mouth. Now if you would like to debtate the the topic of this thread then have at it.

Well, I’m still confused why you brought up O’Reilly and Hannity… and then pretended that you didn’t.
the real john t

@ ImNotBlue

Sorry, you’re too ignorant to even try and converse with. It would be a waste of my time.
ImNotBlue

the real john t says:
March 6, 2010 at 3:20 am

So does that mean you don’t have an answer for why you brought O’Reilly and Hannity into this conversation?
MichelleF

John,
Wow, you are condescending. Do you really think you are smarter than everyone else on the planet, or is it an act?
Michael_T

I thought I would get a break from the personal attacks by leaving TVNewser for Mediaite. What a shame that it is not the case.

It seems that HuffingtonPost and their moderators continue to do the best job of keeping personal attacks between posters to a minimum.

I will say this however. Steve Krakauer does try to do some policing, but we can’t expect 24/7 monitoring.

Nor can we expect most posters to act like adults and not 7th graders apparently.
Azarkhan

MichelleF says:
March 5, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Perfect candidate, she’s a liberal hack!

Agreed.
The Real Royal King

I know her husband is interested in getting back to the US, and Christiane would be comfortable living anywhere. So, there is some logic in it all. I still have my doubts. Christiane is by far the greatest reporter in journalism today. She has an enormous, world-wide audience. I’m not sure I would want to see her give up reporting. However, if she were to get the job I’d start going to the Vigil Mass or the Medicare Mass so I wouldn’t miss the show. She is superb.
Olby Sucks

……..at telling half the story and sympathizing with terrorists.
Jim R

Agreed, TRRK, she is superb. One can tell by the comments that this serious journalist failed someone’s litmus right wing propaganda test or something, making her all the more appealing.

Steve’s point about potential problems if the ABC “family” if they went this way is interesting, although she’s at least a distant cousin on CNN.

Her years as a foreign correspondent and news-maker interviewer make her an excellent choice, as Rachel would be for MTP amd Gwen Ifill on CBS. Maybe a little less testosterone on Sunday mornings will lead to less illegal, foolish wars.
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