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that peace talks would subsequently
approached me. I was amazed, and
be on hold. "He phrased it as if he
doubly amazed when they asked me
had no idea that it's a traditional
to be the Pentagon correspondent.
mourning period," Safian says. "One
"Fortunately, a few months later
would expect someone with his histo-
the Iraqis invaded Kuwait," he says.
ry to be a little more cognizant of
"Bad for Kuwait and good for my
some of the realities and the facts,
career. Here was a story that I knew a
and perhaps be a little tougher on
lot about, covering the Middle East
administration officials. I assume that
for so many years. Here was a story
he sometimes knows more than he
that the whole world was watching,
lets on.
[for which] I could use sources that I
Blitzer explains it this way. "I don't
had used for years.
get any pressure from Jewish groups. I
Unlike many well-known television
get letters from lots of viewers, Jewish
news-show hosts or anchors, Blitzer
and non-Jewish. I get criticism. A lot
remained in the daily reporting grind
of people think I am unfair to
for a substantial period of time.
Clinton, or too nice. I can't remem-
"I have worked long hours," he
ber any criticism or praise for that
says. "I'm not complaining because
matter as far as my [CNN] coverage
it's been really fascinating. I [did] a
from the Middle East."
tremendous amount of reporting. I
He did not speak of President
[didn't rely] on other people to do it
Clinton in this interview, but during
for me. I'm [was] on the phone all
an April address in Baltimore to the
the time, and if you want to break
Rabbinical Assembly convention, he
stories that's what you have to do.
was candid.
When you're competing [with some
"One of the biggest senses of regret
of the best journalists in the world],
that I have had over the past year was
your game gets better.
all of us were forced to spend so much
In doing so, he says he always
time covering the investigation of the
strived to be unbiased. "The highest
president, and we had no choice," he
compliment [is] when my readers and
told 500 Conservative rabbis.
now viewers say, 'I don't know if you
"Here was a criminal investigation
are a Democrat or Republican,' or
of the president and a trial in the
`Do you favor the Likud or Labor?'"
he says.
"I want people
to come away
from something I
write or do on
BORN: March 22, 1948,
TV and say, 'I
Buffalo, N.Y.
learned something
I didn't know."'
EDUCATION: Arts and History, B.S.,
Nor does he
State University of New York at Buffalo;
International Relations, M.S., The Johns Hopkins
buy into claims
by some Jewish
University School
of Advanced International Studies
media watchdog
groups that
PROFESSIONAL:
CNN is biased
Reporter, Reuters News Agency,
against Israel.
Jerusalem
(1971-1973);
"Since he usu-
Washington
Correspondent,
ally doesn't deal
Washington, D.C.,
Jerusalem
Post,
with the Middle
(1973-1989);
East, it's hard to
Senior White House Correspondent,
characterize
Cable News Network (1990-Summer 1999);
him," says Alex
Anchor,
CNN's World Today,
Safian, associate
debuting
Sept. 13, and airing weekdays at 8 p.m.
director for
(He
also
continues
as host of Late Edition,
CAMERA —
the
90-minute
CNN
Sunday talk show airing at noon)
The Committee
For Accuracy in
MARRIED: Lynn Greenfield
Middle East
CHILDREN: Elana
Reporting.
But Safian
RESIDES: Bethesda, Md.
points to cover-
age after a suicide
BOOKS: Between Washington and Jerusalem:
terrorist attack in
A Reporter's Notebook (Oxford University Press, 1985);
Israel a few years
Territory of Lies (Harper and Row, 1989)
ago. Blitzer said
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