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'NewsHour' Cancels Media Critic Interview
Washington Post ^
| November 25, 2003
| Howard Kurtz
Posted on 11/25/2003 12:02:25 AM PST by 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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KEYWORDS: autumnofthemoguls; censorship; critic; disney; lyingliars; mediabias; michaelwolff; mightymoguls; pbs; purebs; unbalanced; wolff
To: WaterDragon
They exercised their Mogul Veto.
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posted on
11/25/2003 12:05:22 AM PST
by
samtheman
To: WaterDragon
Isn't this the Wolf who insulted the Brigadier General at CentCom in Qatar?
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posted on
11/25/2003 4:36:46 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(DEMS INHABIT A PARALLEL UNIVERSE)
To: WaterDragon
Wolff is a left-wing hack. And he's absolutely no friend of Murdoch, as the article implies. He's just another hate-spewer.
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posted on
11/25/2003 4:45:49 AM PST
by
Jhensy
To: OldFriend
Isn't this the Wolff who insulted the Brigadier General [Vincent Brooks] at CentCom in Qatar?
Yes.
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posted on
11/25/2003 4:50:23 AM PST
by
dighton
(Neo-Conservative Power Vortex™)
To: dighton
You could have warned me!!! LOLOL........eeeewwwwwww
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posted on
11/25/2003 4:51:09 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(DEMS INHABIT A PARALLEL UNIVERSE)
To: OldFriend
Better not click on it, then. (You've been warned).
;-)
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posted on
11/25/2003 4:52:22 AM PST
by
dighton
(Neo-Conservative Power Vortex™)
To: dighton
"We did the interview, we looked at it and felt it he was unbalanced, and decided not to run it," he said.....(SNIP)
To: dighton
Looks like a damn vampire to me!
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posted on
11/25/2003 4:59:17 AM PST
by
gunnedah
To: dighton
He's as repulsive to look at as Michael Jackson
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posted on
11/25/2003 5:58:11 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(DEMS INHABIT A PARALLEL UNIVERSE)
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