If she had the go-ahead to put a foreign policy spin on This Week, I think she'd do just fine. It would help distinguish the program (her soon-to-be-former colleague Fareed Zakaria is the only one doing anything close to it) from the other Sunday chatter-fests. If I didn't live inside the Beltway, I wouldn't give a damn about any of this. If these programs got more than a tenth of their ratings outside of DC and New York, I'd be surprised.
That said, I don't think ABC has the stones to do it. Which is too bad, because most of those shows suffer from the same horse-race mentality of the rest of political reporting, and they have this weird sense of celebrity about them. Amanpour would go a long way to puncture both trends if This Week went with a foreign policy focus. David ________________________________ From: Chris Neuman <[email protected]> Is this a good it for Amanpour? It seemed her heart is in foreign correspondent work, not the Beltway insider role of Stephanopoulos. Chris On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: She starts this August... > >http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/christiane-amanpour-named-this-week-anchor/story?id=10134734 > > > >>-- >>BOB > > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
