I didn't actually watch Christiane's debut. I did, however, see the first fifteen seconds of it just now, courtesy of WNN's Facebook-posted News Vault piece. Here's how she opened the program.
"Good morning. I am thrilled to be here in the Newseum. After 20 years covering the world, the story in this country is turning into one of the most fascinating: the struggle over politics and policy, and how they merge to meet people's needs." (1) The third sentence is grammatically unsound. When she says, "After 20 years covering the world," she's obviously referring to herself. Yet this phrase is left to modify the noun "story," implying that a story has spent 20 years covering the world. Terrible. (2) The third sentence is also preposterous. The concept of U.S. politics and policy has suddenly *turned into* one of the most fascinating stories? Not trying to be mean. I think Amanpour is great at what she does, and I would have loved to see a world politics/policy program coupled with a domestic one on Sunday mornings. But I do think that it's not to much to ask of ABC (or any of the networks) to devote one hour a week to the inner workings of Washington, and either this show is going to stray from that focus... or the host is going to be someone who has not spent the past 20 years building up the kind of detailed knowledge that Tim Russert (or, for that matter, David Gregory -- or Jake Tapper!) had. Beau ====== AIM/Gmail Chat: damonbeau www.facebook.com/damonbeau www.twitter.com/damonbeau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" 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/wnndl?hl=en.
