Sent: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 4:50 pm
Subject: '' Diane Sawyer to Anchor ABC's Nightly News ''
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Subject: '' Diane Sawyer to Anchor ABC's Nightly News ''
To The Editor,
In an effort to demonstrate Diane Sawyer '' bona fides '' as a hard hitting journalist ( '' Sawyer Sets Her Tone as ABC's Anchor " : New York Times Dec.22, 2009 ). today's Times informs us how during a recent interview in Copenhagen she confronted President Ahmadinejad of Iran over his country's alleged drive to develop nuclear weapons. '' Seated across from Mr. Almadinejad ...Ms Sawyer waved a copy of a document that was published in The Times of London this month that suggests that Iran is working on a trigger for a nuclear bomb. '' Have you been been testing a neutron initiator ? " she asked sounding a bit like a principal who has caught a student cheating'' . Rudeness toward a Moslem head of state is apparently in a good career move if you are an journalist who wishes to anchor the nightly news. However I would have more respect for Ms. Sawyer if she had applied this same confrontational style to an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and asked him about his county's over four hundred nuclear warheads. The consequences I think are obvious; Ms. Sawyer's career as a journalist would have come to an abrupt end.
giuseppe furioso
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