{"id":1698,"date":"2010-03-19T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/03\/19\/amanpour-fact-based\/"},"modified":"2010-03-19T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:16:14","slug":"amanpour-fact-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/03\/19\/amanpour-fact-based\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanpour: Fact-Based"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christiana Amanpour\u2019s selection as host of \u201cThis Week\u201d<\/a> is seen as an intriguing choice, mostly because of the foreign perspective she brings to the program.  Will she try to force feed the American public a diet of intrigue in Africa or the Far East?  Perhaps.  But there is something more attractive to me:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy entire career has been based on fact-based reporting,\u201d she said. \u201cI am neither political, nor ideological. I believe in real reporting and facilitating a broader conversation.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Will that mean that when the Washington pols start off on a tangential lie, she\u2019ll interrupt and say, \u201cBut that\u2019s not true\u201d?  She strikes me as someone who does not suffers fools lightly, and there are plenty of them in D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christiana Amanpour\u2019s selection as host of \u201cThis Week\u201d is seen as an intriguing choice, mostly because of the foreign perspective she brings to the program.  Will she try to force feed the American public a diet of intrigue in Africa or the Far East?  Perhaps.  But there is something more attractive to me: \u201cMy entire… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[161,163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}