The Trouble With On-The-Job News Reporting

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

                 Christiane   Amanpour was born in the West London suburb of Ealing on January 12, 1958, the daughter of Mohammad Taghi Amanpour (Iranian) and Anne Patricia Hill (British). Her father was Shia Muslim and her mother Roman Catholic.  Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpouris a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour, CNN's The Amanpour Hour on Saturdays and Amanpour & Company on PBS. She also hosts Christiane Amanpour Presents The Ex-Files with her ex-husband James Rubin on Global.

There's negativity to report about on-the-job news reporting such as Christiane Amanpour spoke about this morning when talking about a newscast experience she had in Bosnia.  She just reported about what she saw.  Christiane Amanpour's reporting on the Bosnian War (1992–1995) was pivotal in bringing the conflict's atrocities to a global audience. Her work as CNN's chief international correspondent from the besieged city of Sarajevo helped shape public perception and triggered a debate over journalistic objectivity during genocide.

• Amanpour reported on the brutal shelling of Sarajevo by the Bosnian Serb army and the suffering of civilians trapped by the siege.

This morning she included what she observed (only) in Gaza withIsraelis not allowing reporters inside Gaza. This has become a bigcomplaint.                                 

What if the following happened and reporters simply reported what they saw.  How would they have reported the act?  Wouldthe why part of the act be included if they didn't bother to findout?  

The U.S. dropped the world's first atomic bomb, codenamed "Little Boy," on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, a U.S. 

B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, carried out the bombing. A second bomb, "Fat Man," was dropped on Nagasaki three days later, resulting in Japan's surrender and the end of World War II.

Estimates of Japanese deaths from the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki vary, but it is generally accepted that the bombings resulted in at least 200,000 to 250,000 deaths, with a range of specific figures like 140,000 for Hiroshima and 74,000 for Nagasaki cited by the BBC, and official records suggesting 66,000-150,000 deaths. The exact death toll is impossible to determine due to extensive destruction, the confusion of wartime records, and ongoing deaths from radiation-related illnesses over the following weeks, months, and decades. 

If Christiane only saw this happening, she would have had a scalding report about the USA, not knowing what prompted the USA to do such an outlandish thing !  

The primary reason for the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Japan was to force a swift surrender, thereby avoiding a costly U.S. invasion that was anticipated to result in hundreds of thousands of American and Japanese casualties. 

Other contributing factors included a desire to demonstrate the bomb's power to Japan and potentially to the Soviet Union, to secure U.S. post-war dominance, and to use the bombs before the Soviets could enter the war against Japan..That's AI's reasoning.  

The primary reason President Harry Truman used the atomic bomb on Japan was to force a swift and unconditional surrender, avoiding a costly ground invasion. The American military feared that an invasion of the Japanese mainland would result in a massive loss of life for both American and Japanese soldiers and civilians. It could be that they had no idea of the power of one of these bombsand didn't expect the loss of life by dropping one.  

• Avoiding a deadly invasion: Military planners had developed Operation Downfall, a large-scale invasion of Japan. Estimates for American casualties ranged from 100,000 to over a million, with millions more Japanese military and civilian deaths expected. The recent bloody battles on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, where Japanese soldiers fought to the last man, demonstrated the high cost of each island conquest.
• Saving lives: Truman believed that an unconditional surrender, brought about by the atomic bomb, would ultimately save lives by preventing the prolonged bloodshed of a conventional land invasion. As he later wrote, his "object is to save as many American lives as possible".
• Swift end to the war: Four years of intense, worldwide conflict had exhausted the American public. An end to the fighting was a national priority, and the atomic bomb offered a way to achieve a final victory as quickly as possible.
• Japan's refusal to surrender: By mid-1945, Japan's military position was hopeless. However, many Japanese leaders were still determined to fight to the death and resisted calls for unconditional surrender, even after repeated conventional bombings devastated their cities. The bombs were intended to demonstrate a new level of destructive power that would break this resolve. 
• Incidently, President Truman learned about the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb immediately after becoming president on April 12, 1945, through briefings by the Secretary of War and the project's general. He was informed that the bomb was incredibly powerful, capable of causing massive destruction and civilian casualties, but he believed it was a necessary tool to end the war and save Allied lives. While some scientists suggested a demonstration, Truman's advisors recommended using the bomb, and he agreed to drop it on Japanese cities to force surrender and end the conflict. 

• This sounds so familiar with Hamas who won't surrender butkeep on fighting by hiding behind their own people, shootingthem if they try to leave the area, steal their food from trucksbrought in, hide in hospitals;; even wanting to die as martyrs forrewards in a future life.    
• Journalistic appointments: Journalists have reported that when the Gaza war began, newsroom leadership often assigned the story to a specific reporter, often a white male with little regional expertise. In some cases, reporters with Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim heritage were reportedly perceived as biased and sidelined.  Al Jazeera is an example. 
• Official interference: Some outlets have been accused of allowing external entities to influence their reporting. It was reported that CNN journalists covering the conflict must submit their work for review by the network's Jerusalem bureau and that some of the Israeli military's conditions for international journalists on the ground included pre-broadcast reviews. This response must have led to deciding to keep out reportersperiod if they couldn't understand what had been going on. 
• Christiane Amanpour did not produce a specific documentary report on President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb in Japan. However, her program Amanpour and Company and other CNN broadcasts have covered the topic in depth, especially around the 80th anniversary of the bombings in August 2025.  
• Research
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Amanpour
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