CNN’s Christiane Amanpour to depart from network after 43 years
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/cnns-christiane-amanpour-depart-network-43-years-rcna604365
Unfortunately, decades-long antisemite Amanpour is retiring on her own terms, not as involuntarily as she deserved.
Amanpour leaves ‘CNN,’ but a legacy of anti-Israel media bias remainshttps://www.jns.org/opinion/column/jonathan-s-tobin/amanpour-leaves-cnn-but-a-legacy-of-anti-israel-media-bias-remainsChristiane Amanpour will soon be gone from CNN, where she began her career in 1983. A star of its coverage of various armed conflicts for more than 30 years, she has been the cable giant’s international anchor since 2012.
Coverage of the announcement that she will leave the network in June, however, wasn’t so much the usual celebration of an honored retiree. Instead, it was used as an occasion for both Amanpour and other members of the journalism establishment to fire a shot over the bow of the new owner of CNN, billionaire David Ellison, whose Paramount Skydance company recently finalized its purchase of CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Amanpour, who has spent her adult life hobnobbing with celebrities, and eventually becoming one herself, objects to Ellison. But this isn’t just the usual snobbery displayed by wealthy celebrities about even wealthier people they are forced to work for. David Ellison is the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, ranked by Forbes as the eighth-richest person on Earth with a net worth estimated at $182 billion.
Her problem stems from the fact that he thinks legacy outlets like CNN are a dying paradigm and out of touch with most viewers. One of the reasons for this is that it, like the vast majority of legacy media outlets, is hopelessly biased, tilting the news from a liberal point of view to the point where increasingly few who don’t share its political prejudices bother to watch it anymore.
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Amanpour may like to claim that she was “fiercely independent” and devoted to the facts, though that has never been true of her work. And there is no better illustration than the way she has used her influential perch to skew coverage against the State of Israel, and to depict it and its people as uniquely evil and almost always in the wrong.
Her bosses at CNN and elsewhere have not only tolerated her bias but encouraged it. Indeed, if she’s a role model for the rising generation of the press, it’s because she has practiced a form of journalism and reporting the news from her own biased perspective. From the time she first became a star during the First Gulf War to the present, Amanpour turned the skewing of stories into an art form. She always managed to make whatever she reported conform to her pre-existing ideas about the good guys to be extolled and the bad guys to be vilified.
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The list of outrageous examples of her anti-Israel bias is too long to relate here. Those who want to take a deep dive into the extensive catalogue of her journalistic malpractice can visit the CAMERA media monitoring organization’s website page devoted to her for a taste of the consistent way in which she misrepresented the truth when it came to anything about the Jewish state.
Some of the highlights include incidents such as when she said on air on Oct. 25, 2025 that the Israeli hostages held by Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023, who were tortured, raped and starved by the terrorists, “were probably being treated better than the average Gazan.” Never mind that some of the hostages were actually being abused while held captive by “average Gazans.” While she was later forced to retract that lie, it was in line with the way she and others in corporate media became stenographers for Hamas, accepting every false claim the terrorist organization made, while treating anything coming from Israel with the deepest skepticism.
In 2024, she compared Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti, currently serving a life sentence for five murders, to Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned in South Africa for 27 years until he was freed and eventually became that country’s first black president.
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Years before that, she provoked justified anger from the pro-Israel community for her 2007 CNN documentary series “God’s Jewish Warriors.” It depicted all Israeli Jews living in Judea and Samaria, as well as their supporters, as mad fanatics. The series never acknowledges the Islamist extremism that defines mainstream Palestinian Arab opinion and that has impelled them to reject every attempt at compromise for a century.
Haters-in-Hiding eventually self-expose. Antisemites parroting the ridiculous, "I don't hate Jews, I just oppose Zionism," line self-expose by the absurdities they speak and publish and by their one-sided lying-by-omissions. Amanpour did that, was paid to do that.
