Hillarysworld

01/26/2010

CNN spiked a hot story on Sunday.  But if their plan was to keep a lid on a heated and unflattering Christiane Amanpour interview, it didn’t quite work out.  Christiane Amanpour interviewed author Marc Thiessen about his hot new book, Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack last Wednesday, January 20.  But Thiessen turned the tables on Amanpour and instead confronted her about her biased reporting.  

The show broadcast to CNN’s international audience, as planned.  The piece was then to air in the large U.S. market Sunday.  However, it appears that after Thiessen firmly called out CNN’s star reporter for spreading mistruths about enhanced interrogation, one of her pet issues, the network opted to not air the show at all in the United States.  

Here’s where the story gets interesting.  Fox News Channel then grabbed the CNN video clips off YouTube and aired parts of the revealing interview on its two top rated shows, "The O’Reilly Factor" and "Hannity."  The net effect was that parts of the interview were seen domestically by more than ten times the number who would have seen it had the show simply aired on CNN alone.

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