CNN’s Christiane Amanpour called for left-wing press unity in opposition to President-elect Donald Trump during the 2016 International Press Freedom Awards on Wednesday.

Accepting an award acknowledging her ostensible contributions to “press freedom," Amanpour issued her call to arms via a prepared speech.

Amanpour began with alarmism, framing Trump as a dictator-in-progress:

“I never thought in a million years that I would be standing up here after all the times I participated in this ceremony, appealing really, for the freedom and the safety of American journalists at home… Those bits from Donald Trump that were in that video basically show us and remind us of the peril that we face…

As you’ve seen tonight, that is how it goes with authoritarians around the world, like Sisi, like Erdogan, like Putin, like the Ayatollahs, like Duterte in the Philippines, and all of those people…. First, the media is accused of inciting, then sympathizing, then associating, and then suddenly they find themselves accused of being full-fledged terrorists and subversives, and then they end up in handcuffs, in cages, in kangaroo courts, in prisons, and then who knows what?”

Amanpour also claimed to be “chilled” by Trump’s first tweet as president-elect, echoing left-wingand Democrat-aligned media:

“A great America requires a great and safe and free press,” said Amanpour, drawing partly on Trump’s campaign slogan of returning America to greatness.

The news media, said Amanpour, must be vigilant and unified in defending its pretense of integrity while opposing Trump. A “safe and free press,” she inadvertently implied, was predicated on ideological uniformity among its reporters, journalists, and pundits:

“Don’t stand for being called or labeled ‘lying’ or ‘crooked’ or ‘failing.’ We have to stand up together, because divided we will fall.”

Amanpour also inadvertently acknowledged the left-wing and partisan Democrat biases of most English-language news media, describing the industry as having been defeated by Trump. She also lamented the rise of digital platforms facilitating the free transmission of information in the absence of journalistic curation and filtering: http://www.dailywire.com/news/11062/amanpour-calls-media-jihad-against-trump-robert-kraychik