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Mr. Tateishi is entirely correct. Ms. Amanpour bears a substantial degree of moral and arguably criminal culpability for the killing of innocent civilians in the 1999 US air raids conducted against Belgrade, Pristina and other civilian population centers within what was the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. I don't see her as tremendously different from those Hutu radio announcers who called for the massacre of Tutsis in Rwanda, back in 1994.

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Who is Christiane Amanpour, and why, other than because she is female, should I desire to know her by way of yet another format or medium?

There exists the older and presumably wiser Gloria Steinem. And there exists Steinem's steadfast refusal to extend a hand to a woman who is younger, and presumably more naïve, than she herself or Amanpour: Sarah Palin.

What does Steinem (the role model, now, for Amanpour) say is Palin's threat to women, and especially to any woman who would be like Steinem herself, except that Palin is a person who raises her offspring to serve their nation in its military, to serve even during times of war and not excluding wars which have as their goal the rescuing of what European Jews have not already been exterminated in the camps?

Amanpour gets one (more) chance to prove her mettle.

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While Ms. Amanpour will be an asset for ABC, she is an international figure, and she will be dealing with a smaller national audience, instead of a worldwide audience with CNNI. One can say it is a win for the US and a loss for the world. She has international contacts that cannot be matched by our domestic reporters. Along with Diane Sawyer, she will bring a different perspective to ABC News.

CNNI and the BBC are now the best sources for television news. However, they don't have a clue about economics. You do get the basic facts on which you can draw your own conclusions. They do not rock the neoliberal boat.

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It seems that the author is covering up or not well-informed about Amanpour's role in the Yugoslavian war. She filled CNN with incorrect, emotional reports on Serbs, to incite the criminal Yugoslavian war without any Security Council resolution. At least with respect to her role in Yugoslavian war, she should be classified as a war criminal.