'NewsHour' Cancels Media Critic Interview

Washington Post ^ | November 25, 2003 | Howard Kurtz

[WaterDragon]

When "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" invited author Michael Wolff on the program, his reputation as a scathing media critic was hardly a secret. Wolff, a columnist for New York magazine, was peddling his new book, "Autumn of the Moguls," which describes said moguls in personal and rather unflattering terms.

But the PBS program abruptly killed the taped interview Friday, a week after it was recorded.

"It doesn't make any sense," Wolff said yesterday. "You invite an author on, he's going to give you the view he wrote about." He said that "these guys must be super-sensitive" that his remarks would "annoy" powerful media executives such as Sumner Redstone, Michael Eisner, Barry Diller, Mel Karmazin and Rupert Murdoch.

Les Crystal, the program's executive producer, dismissed Wolff's criticism. "We did the interview, we looked at it and felt it was unbalanced, and decided not to run it," he said.....(SNIP)

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[samtheman]

They exercised their Mogul Veto.

[OldFriend]

Isn't this the Wolf who insulted the Brigadier General at CentCom in Qatar?

[Jhensy]

Wolff is a left-wing hack. And he's absolutely no friend of Murdoch, as the article implies. He's just another hate-spewer.

[dighton]

Isn't this the Wolff who insulted the Brigadier General [Vincent Brooks] at CentCom in Qatar?

Yes.

[OldFriend]

You could have warned me!!! LOLOL........eeeewwwwwww

[dighton]

Better not click on it, then. (You've been warned).

;-)

[hellinahandcart]

"We did the interview, we looked at it and felt it he was unbalanced, and decided not to run it," he said.....(SNIP)

[gunnedah]

Looks like a damn vampire to me!

[OldFriend]

He's as repulsive to look at as Michael Jackson