Questions for Chistiane Amanpour
The New York Times Magazine’s Edward Levine has a whole mess of questions for CNN’s Christiane Amanpour…
14. How She Tells Her Son She’s Going to War: I didn’t tell him when he was little. I just said, “Mommy is going to work.” It gets more difficult as he gets older. He’s 9 now, but I never let him watch television news, so he isn’t aware of all the implications.
15. Shell Collecting: I have a piece of an unexploded cannon shell that fell into the hotel I was staying in during the siege of Sarajevo, Bosnia, in the mid-1990s. I use it as an umbrella stand, but it is an important reminder to me that I am so lucky to have escaped there alive and sane.
16. Toughest Interview: President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan. It was incredibly difficult to get him to answer any question. I was trying to understand why the Sudanese government felt it necessary to attack Darfur and bomb villages. There was a complete denial of black-and-white facts.
17. Historical Villain She’d Like to Talk to: I’d like to interview Stalin. I’d like to explore with him the process of how you go from being an ordinary person to becoming a mass-murdering megalomaniac.
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