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Conservative Talk Host Banned from NewsHour for Rudeness

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Don’t look for Melanie Morgan back on PBS anytime soon. The San Francisco radio talker got into a heated exchange with the head of a veteran’s advocacy group during en episode of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. The program producer said, “The NewsHour style is to ask pointed questions politely; we expect our guests to subscribe to the same rules. Since the program is produced live, we can’t do much to eliminate rude guests from your television screen once the segment has begun; what we can do is guarantee you will never see that person on our program again.”

Morgan denounced the decision saying the other guest interrupted her first, adding that she considered the decision “another blatant example of media bias in fighting the global war on terror.” Transcript


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