CNN’s Christiane Amanpour complained that the Bush team “is getting a lot of cover” from journalists because patriotism in the media means reporters “are afraid of challenging the administration.”
Amanpour made the comments, which FNC’s Brit Hume highlighted on March 14, at a March 13 forum held a day after Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy gave her an award for lifetime excellence in investigative reporting.
In the March 14 Boston Globe, Mark Jurkowitz quoted Amanpour’s remarks (ellipses as they appeared in the Globe story):
Amanpour said that a flag-waving fervor seems to have infected journalism, pointing to “a definite sense of patriotism in the American media since Sept. 11….I think people are afraid of challenging the administration….I think the Bush administration is getting a lot of cover from us willing to censor ourselves.”
Click here for the entire Globe story.
(This update courtesy of the Media Research Center.)
