Christiane Amanpour world's highest-paid correspondent

In 2005 President Clinton saw a need to establish Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). CGI reflects his belief that governments need collaboration from the private sector, non-governmental organizations, media and other global leaders to effectively confront the world’s most pressing problems and promote "good government in new democracies". CGI membership is a year-round activity tailored to the needs of today's world leaders. The CGI membership fee is $20,000 per calendar year. Amanpour was a member alongside with Gordon Brown (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) , Shimon Peres (President of Israel), Barrack Obama (44th President of United States), Jens Stoltenberg (Prime Minister of Norway), Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, Robert Zoellick (President of The World Bank Group), Hillary Clinton, Richard Holbrooke, Javier Solana (High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union), Martti Ahtisaari, George Soros and others... The Global Initiative's annual meeting, however, displayed a list of sponsors that included "purely charitable outfits" such as the Rockefeller Foundation, Bill Gates, but also Pfizer, a major player in the heavily regulated pharmaceutical industry.

Talk about "independent journalism". Now, back to Christiane Amanpour. In 1998, Christiane married former US Assistant Secretary of State James Rubin. The couple met in 1997 in Bosnia, where Ms. Amanpour was on assignment and Mr. Rubin was traveling with Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright. Many find it unusual that Amanpour, raised in Islamic Iran, married a man of the Jewish faith tradition. In 2007 she was given one of Britain’s top honours by Queen Elizabeth. For her reporting from the Balkans, Amanpour received a News and Documentary Emmy, two George Foster Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, a Courage in Journalism Award, a Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival Gold Award and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Remember, at the time of NATO aggression on Serbia, James Rubin was the spokesman of the State Department. Her story represents all that one needs to know about the world, reduced, packaged, and delivered. To them (western media), the KLA is one day a drug smuggling operation, the next - an army of liberation. The media often generate the very events that they describe. They add an impetus, import momenta, dictate trajectory, nudge leaders and determines consequences. They are an active partner rather than a disinterested by-stander. As such, they share the matrix of responsibility with politicians and army generals. Christiane is not the first among her colleagues, she is much more than that - their symbol. She was simply "chosen" to do the dirty work. Her first important journalistic mission was in 1990. Two years later, she is in the Bosnia and on the road to world glory... Who is, in fact, Christiane Amanpour? She was a child od several cultures. Shortly after her birth in London, her father Mohammad, an Iranian airline executive and her British mother Patricia, moved the family to Tehran. The Amanpours led a privileged life under the government of the Shah of Iran. She returned to England in 1969 and her family fled from Iran during the Islamic Revolution. From age 11, attended two Roman Catholic all-girls' schools in Great Britain. Graduated Summa Cum Laude from University of Rhode Island in 1983 with a BA in Journalism. She was a roomie with JFK Jr. After graduation, she endured numerous network rejections because she lacked "the right look."

"I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle and with about 100 dollars."

She was transferred to Eastern Europe in 1986, during the fall of Communism. Her emotional delivery from Sarajevo during the Siege of Sarajevo led some viewers and critics to question her professional objectivity, claiming that many of her reports were unjustified and in favour towards the Bosnian Muslims, to which she replied,

"There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing."

She was sitting in Belgrade when that Markale marketplace massacre happened, and she went on the air to say that the Serbs had probably done it. There was no way she could have known that. She was assuming an omniscience which no journalist has. As it happened in the Markale case, later investigation indicated Serbs could not have perpetrated this particular attack. The fact that a UN classified report concluded that Bosnian Muslim forces had committed the Markale marketplace massacre seems of no consequence to Ms. Amanpour. Christiane Amanpour has yet to inform her viewers of this fact, but continues to allow them to believe the massacre was a Serbian atrocity...She stepped unabashedly out of her role as a reporter when she publicly challenged President Bill Clinton in May 1994 to take action in response to Serbian actions in Bosnia.

" When our world leaders wanted to shrug away and call it a terrible civil war for which all sides were equally guilty, we said, "No." Genocide against Muslims in Europe was being committed and this had to be stopped." (April 29, 2006).

She was CNN's top war correspondent in Iraq and by doing so, failed to aggressively question the motives behind the invasion. Why doesn't she "scream bloody murder" about US crimes in Middle East or elsewhere around the globe? A review of her reporting over the years in Bosnia, Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories suggests the hollowness of such lofty claims and underscores her preference for advocacy journalism in which she pushes her own personal definitions of fairness and truth, instead of presenting information objectively. Amanpour’s self-ascribed moral authority is reflected in other aspects of her work. She even fashions herself an expert on international law where it suits her story. Is Amanpour ignorant or a liar? If she's ignorant, she should be fired. Not for this singular untruth, but for the entire enterprise which leaks lies and distortions at every frame. If she's a liar, well, she should be fired... Honestly, calling this, um—thing—journalism would be like calling McDonald's burger organic food. There should be war crimes tribunal for fake journalism that leads to military intervention.

Where is Christiane Amanpour, there is no truth, and thus can not even be in danger.