{"id":4957,"date":"2010-03-26T08:22:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2010-03-26T08:22:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:22:49","slug":"this-week-with-christiane-amanpour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4957","title":{"rendered":"This Week With Christiane Amanpour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Christine Amanpour\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2578\/4110266144_9392f2978a.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Max Fisher in <em>The Atlantic<\/em> describes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/print\/2010\/03\/christiane-amanpour-is-an-ideal-host-for-this-week\/38003\/\">Christiane Amanpour as an ideal candidate to host <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/print\/2010\/03\/christiane-amanpour-is-an-ideal-host-for-this-week\/38003\/\">This Week<\/a><\/em>. He has me convinced:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beltway pundits tend to emphasize Beltway concerns, like electoral campaigns and private scandals and colorful personalities.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign reporters&#8217; great strength, however, is their ability to see politics not as theater but as an extension of cultural, social, and economic forces. If Amanpour brings this approach to\u00a0<em>This Week<\/em>, it would be more than just a breath of fresh air in the homogeneous Sunday line-up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some questioned her\u00a0ability to be a tough interviewer for the seasoned Washington pols who would appear on her show. It seems a silly objection, especially considering this nugget Fisher pulled out of a recent <em>New York Times<\/em> article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reflecting on her interviews with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, whose reign is considered one of the world&#8217;s most brutal since World War II, Amanpour recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/14\/magazine\/14fob-domains-t.html\">quipped<\/a>, &#8220;He would slap you on the back, offer you a drink. He tried to be charming. But many of them do. You have to be on your guard.&#8221; Surely she can handle John Boehner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/humanrights\/4110266144\/\">Witness.org<\/a> licensed under Creative Commons.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Fisher in The Atlantic describes Christiane Amanpour as an ideal candidate to host This Week. He has me convinced: Beltway pundits tend to emphasize Beltway concerns, like electoral campaigns and private scandals and colorful personalities. Foreign reporters&#8217; great strength, however, is their ability to see politics not as theater but as an extension of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66,458],"tags":[2675,2677,2674,2676,226,2053],"class_list":["post-4957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-media","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-christiane-amanpour","tag-christine-amanpour","tag-max-fisher","tag-slobodan-milosevic","tag-the-atlantic","tag-this-week"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1hX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4959,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}