'This Week' Ratings Plummet With Christiane Amanpour As Host

NewsBusters ^ | 09/27/2010 | Noel Sheppard

[SanFranDan]

The Christiane Amanpour as "This Week" host experiment so far is a huge failure for ABC as ratings have plummeted since she took over the Sunday political talk show.

Last Sunday's program attracted 29 percent less viewers than the same day last year.

Making matters worse for ABC executives is the fact that Amanpour's numbers are far worse than interim host Jake Tapper's who did most of the anchoring after George Stephanopoulos left for "Good Morning America."

As Steve Krakauer reported Monday, the decision to bring Amanpour over from CNN is so far not looking like a good one:

[mad_as_he$$]

Amanpoo is the new Helen Thomas.

[Dudoight]

They truly ‘Just Don’t Get It’.

[Obadiah]

Amanpour is married to James Rubin, a former Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department during the Clinton administration and currently an informal adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.

So, Amanpour is working as a Journ-o-list while at the same time she is advising the Obama administration. Gee, no conflict of interest there, huh? Just another "unbiased" journalist.

[Joann37]

Good!

[chickadee]

**Amanpoo is the new Helen Thomas.**

That is soooo cold. Funny as heck, . . . but cold. lol

[cvq3842]

Could be.

[MizSterious]

I’m guessing that not very many of us wanted to be “educated” on how the world works? (referencing her comments in an interview last week)

[Radagast the Fool]

I didn’t know Amanpour was still around.
Not that I cared!

[SanFranDan]

ROFL. “I hate the way she pronounces ‘Afganistan’, her Iranian/English background sounds like Thurstan Howell the third on Gilligan’s Island.”

[Frantzie]

She needs to wear a burkah. I cannot post here what I really think about this evil b***h.

[ScottinVA]

Of course! Why receive information from:

When you can get it from:

[Peter from Rutland]

Damn straight!

[jimbo123]

[Krankor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLMF5GM0Kt8#t=3m13s

[Huntress]

However, it is interesting to see how George Will will link a nuclear armed Iran to baseball this week.

[snicker]

[Blind Eye Jones]

ABC : Convince us she is what we need.

Agent: She was mentioned as an intellectual in the movie the The Devil Wears Prada. She is cool to all the sophomore intellectual aspirees that hang at Starbucks before their cross cultural studies classes. She'll attract a new generation of liberal devotees, coffeehouse revolutionaries.

ABC: She's Che in drag?

Agent: Better!

ABC : Well now that you put it that way...

[Frantzie]

She always reminds me of Arafat.

ALL of TV is s**t. It is ALL propaganda for Islam now.

[Frantzie]

LOL! Great freaking picture. In Hamas/Islamic green. Eff her - ugly b***h.

James Rubin married that?

[Frantzie]

LOL! Great freaking picture. In Hamas/Islamic green. Eff her - ugly b***h.

James Rubin married that?

[abb]