CNN AMANPOUR-->"Are we going to take what the administration tells us?"

[Danieljay]

Link here: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/30/lkl.01.html

CALLER: Yes, my question is, why hasn't there been more outrage on the part of the American people and the U.S. media, government, on the recent bombing in Pakistan, killing all those women and children? Ignoring sovereignty and international law?

I mean, I haven't seen anything in the American media that has really claimed how awful it was and the anger, the legitimate anger on the part of the Pakistani people. It just floors me that there's no outrage.

KING: Christiane?

AMANPOUR: Larry?

KING: Go ahead. Do you want to take that?

AMANPOUR: You know, I think -- well, certainly there's been a lot of reporting about it. Perhaps not enough for that view of it. As you know, there's not enough international reporting on American television anyway.

But I think to the bigger point, why are we there? We're there because if we're not, whose word are we going to take for it? For instance, over the bombing in Pakistan, and for instance, over the constant atrocities in Iraq.

Are we going to take the Pentagon paid Lincoln Group who are paying positive stories to be written in the Iraqi press? Do you remember at the beginning of this war, Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense, told us that these insurgents were just a bunch of dead enders who amounted to absolutely nothing.

Well, that was three years ago. You remember on your own show, not so long ago, the vice president of the United States said that the insurgency was in its death throes, in its last throes.

Well, we're there to report what's actually going on and we pay a heavy price for trying to get to the truth. And the truth is what our business is all about. And that's why we're out there, despite the enormous, enormous personal cost to us, to our families, and to our networks.

[cynatnite]

1. Link? n/t

[Danieljay]

3. sorry, got excited and posted without it..its there now..and here

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/30/lkl.01.html

[cynatnite]

9. Thanks...I got to ask her a question on TV before Gulf War I

I was hearing stories of journalists being trained in case of chemical weapon attacks. I asked about it and she said she hadn't heard that. A few weeks later she became one of them. Made me wonder if she remembered my question during that.

I do love her. She's at the top of her field and a true professional.

[AzDar]

2. LOVE her. A TRUE journalist. n/t

[Catshrink]

5. Which means CNN will probably fire her

like they did Aaron Brown. Yeah, yeah, I know a lot of people don't like Brown. But he was a journalist, not fluff.

[napi21]

7. Yes she is a true reporter! Can't be bought either!

I only wish the rest of them would use her as an example!

[tishaLA]

4. A journalist worthy of respect

[rodeodance]

6. sad, but many actually embelish on what the Adm. says-not just parrott.

[splat@14]

8. Still don't get it. No international reaction and very little from the US

The caller was spot-on, where the hell is the outrage! 18 more casualties in Bush's war on terror, that will never be counted, or apparently cared about.

I believe that the world is too complacent about war. Its become a normal event in everyday life.

sad

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. I wish Amanpour was running the Democratic party.

sigh...

[Beaverhausen]

11. Last nights Larry King featured a great deal of Bush bashing

by journalists including Bob Scheiffer, Amanpour and two others. It was great.

Here was the answer to a caller who asked why a wounded journalist gets so much attention and the soldiers getting wounded or killed everyday don't.

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AMANPOUR: Well, I think it's an incredibly good question. The caller is absolutely right. And, as Bob Schieffer has just said, of course we focus on very well known people and members of our own community.

But the reason that the deaths and injuries of the American soldiers don't get as much publicity is because we are by and large banned from seeing it.

The United States government has made a decision that we are not allowed to see the coffins, that we're not allowed to see the burials, that we're generally not allowed to go to any of the areas where there are wounded, U.S. military hospitals.

Perhaps you can see a little bit more in Landstuhl in Germany. Perhaps when we go to the hospitals in the United States. But it's very, very difficult to get close to that kind of real tragedy that the American servicemen and women are going through as well.

KING: Why, Lara, can't you see them?

LOGAN: Well, I just want to say that Christiane is absolutely right, and on top of that there's a real irony in that caller's question. Because it's the military themselves that pressure us not to keep reporting the deaths of soldiers, not to focus on the deaths of soldiers and Iraqis ever single day in this conflict.

They tell us you don't tell the good news, you don't show the schools that are opening, you don't do this, you don't do that, why are you always focusing on the death?

And you try and say to them, it's because as a reporter I just feel like every time somebody else dies, I have a responsibility to make sure that death wasn't in vain. That somehow, in some way, it's acknowledged.

KING: So the lady from Ohio should take it up with the Pentagon.

LOGAN: Absolutely.

[Libby2]

12. I think that was the only LK show

I have ever enjoyed !!

[ddeclue]

13. Why is it that Larry King can all of a sudden get interested in the war?

When a network journalist gets hurt but spent the rest of his time since 2003 interviewing fluff entertainment and celebrity stories until this happened to Bob Woodruff? Is it not real until it happens to one of their own?

Amanpour is different because she's one of the few willing to go out in between the bullets to do her reporting. She's a lot more like of a journalist than most of these talking heads on TV these days.

Doug De Clue

[Mr_Spock]

14. Fascinating. Truth?

Is that still allowed?

[CAG]

15. "why hasn't there been more outrage..?" uhh, hello, these were "brown"

people....
remember, us americans don't mind the occasional wayward U.S. bomb as long as its landing on non-white people
:sarcasm: :-(

[qanda]

16. I taped it and I'm watching it now

I cannot believe how brave Christiane is. She is a true hero.

[faithnotgreed]

17. big love kick for ms amanpour

how i wish she were in charge (of news or cnn or the democratic party. anything - im not greedy)