Renowned CNN Correspondent Christiane Amanpour spoke with Marvin Kalb last night during GW's latest Kalb Report. The series highlights important issues in public affairs and has featured a wide array of guests since its inception in 1994.Kalb began the discussion by asking Amanpour how growing up during the Iranian revolution affected her decision to become a journalist. She responded that after watching her home country change so violently she "wanted to be involved, as an observer and a player, and not a victim."
Amanpour's reporting from war zones across the world established her role as a serious player in global news. She gained prestige while reporting from Sarajevo in the nineties, covering what she discovered to be "a genocide." Amanpour brought the brutality of the Bosnian government into the eyes of the public, feeling it was the duty of a journalist to "tell the truth even when the truth is not comfortable."
At the close of the program, Amanpour encouraged aspiring journalists to pursue the truth with a passion, and to keep the public informed. "Be a believer, in this society where the press is called the 4th estate." "Information" she said, "is something a society cannot do without."
- Lex Ratner
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