KURIANSKY & AMANPOUR AT AWARDS FETE
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JUDY KURIANSKY CONGRATULATES ABC’S
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR AS A “GIANT”
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JUDY KURIANSKY CONGRATULATES ABC’S
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR AS A “GIANT”
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Christiane Amanpour With Dr. Judy KurianskyAt the “GIANTS OF BROADCASTING AWARDS” last Friday, Library of Broadcasting Board member and radio and TV broadcaster Judy Kuriansky met up with former CNN chief international correspondent-now ABC News This Week” anchor Christiane Amanpour. Both are at almost every natural disaster and war zone – from the Asian tsunami to Israel -- Amanpour covering the news and Dr Judy providing psychological first aide. On accepting her “GIANT” award, Amanpour said she is “fiercely proud of being a woman getting this award,” and wants to see more balance between women and men on this stage, in top news positions, and in politics. Her real dream, she said, is that she would “like to see a world where women are not judged by the amount of highlights in their hair, shortness of their skirts or deeply plunging cleavage, but by the competence of their work.” Dr. Judy agrees, recalling how TV viewers would comment on the coat she was wearing on the football field doing a special about “The Psychology of Sports” or her earrings when reporting on “New Treatments for Depression.”
Christiane said she grew up watching the TV show “Gunsmoke” with James Arness (a posthumous “Giants” honoree) a part of her life.
Also awarded as a “Giant of Broadcasting” that day by the Library of American Broadcasting, NBC news anchor Brian Williams revealed “a secret about his non-Giant status”: starting out as a college dropout whose first job was as a typist and receptionist at the National Association of Broadcasters, he now wakes up and asks, “How did I get to this… to the greatest job in the world?”
Also honored was the staff of CBS This Morning, a 32-year long TV staple, and its poetic host Charles Osgood, who had recently sang Cole Porter at Birdland for a broadcasting benefit.
Photo Courtesy Of: Abbey Muneer
Christiane said she grew up watching the TV show “Gunsmoke” with James Arness (a posthumous “Giants” honoree) a part of her life.
Also awarded as a “Giant of Broadcasting” that day by the Library of American Broadcasting, NBC news anchor Brian Williams revealed “a secret about his non-Giant status”: starting out as a college dropout whose first job was as a typist and receptionist at the National Association of Broadcasters, he now wakes up and asks, “How did I get to this… to the greatest job in the world?”
Also honored was the staff of CBS This Morning, a 32-year long TV staple, and its poetic host Charles Osgood, who had recently sang Cole Porter at Birdland for a broadcasting benefit.
Photo Courtesy Of: Abbey Muneer
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