CNN/Christiane Amanpour/Lecture

The Stanford Daily: CNN Correspondent recalls legacy of journalist and alum

"Speaking without notes to a standing-room-only audience, Amanpour offered insights, not only from her experience as a prolific foreign correspondent, but also as a critic of her own industry and a first-hand observer of world conflicts. Her subject matter ranged from diminishing international support for the War on Terror to her view that journalism has become too heavily beholden to profits and, consequently, too trivial."

“I’ve seen wholesale cuts in foreign bureaus,
wholesale retreat from foreign news coverage,
” she said. “It could not come at a worse time,
with the world so tense, with policy being so
heavily politicized that it is so difficult even to
figure out where is the truth.”

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