Interesting Reporting Verses That Of Useful

Most know the ‘Good Morning America’ host Diane Sawyer, she is a political correspondent that over the years has contributed quality work to investigative reporting. Her interviews take her to foriegn countries such as North Korea. Sawyer, in recent travels spoke with the Syrian leader Mr.Assad, she sat down with him in a eye opening interview where they dicussed numourous things including how to avert a civil war in Iraq. To this Mr. Assad said, “the Bush administration does not have the vision to bring peace in Iraq and that his country could help calm the crisis if approached”. Diane Sawyer asks tough questions and makes for very interesting reports, but the issue is when one takes in to account the things that these leaders are saying in interviews as such; verses the truths and happenings that they are actually presenting to their own people for their own self interests. What does this mean to the American public and are they benefiting from these reports and do they cross lines that should be left to the diplomats rather than a general news reporter to question these serious issues.

On Feburary 13, 2007, Diane interviewed Iranian President Ahmadinjad as one of the first Americans to do so. Ahmadinejad, is an outspoken critic of the Bush administration. Mr. Ahmadinejad spent several minutes in the interview denying facts and presenting a beauty pageant like view on world peace. Diane asked about whether or not Iran is sending in weapons to kill American troops in Iraq. To this he used the phrase “shy away from conflict” and goes on to use words like "dialogue and logic" in reference to supposedly not having anything to do with the weapons crossing borders. Come to find out, Diane had evidence of these weapons to which proved with serial numbers that Iran weapons had been found in the hands of Iraq insurgents from as recently as December 2006. This man who “shies away from conflict” got fairly heated when discussing the idea that the UN and especially America should leave the region as soon as possible. He also pointed out that America is pointing their finger at the region and not accomplishing any good, not a single moment did he have an answer that could give any sort of conflict resolution to the region though.

It seems like a lot of talk with out a lot of answers. The Democracy that we have in America allows us to have reporters asking foreign leaders these questions. One could think that it is oversteping boundaries when asking the leader of a country that supplies weapons that are killing our armed forces on a daily basis how he feels about peace. This same man Amadinejad denies the holocaust. Is this kind of reporting for just the shock value to get ratings, maybe so. Personally sitting down and discussing the world with some of these people that are illogical in the first place, is a waste. What happened to just reporting the facts, like when Diane gave the evidence of the weapons, that has a point, Ahmadinejad is a waste of time; but watch the video to see for yourself. (http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2873425)

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