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"TV Station Axes Reporter Who (Sort of Misleadingly) Claimed the IRS Was After Him"
In conservative media, St. Louis TV reporter Larry Conners was the first visible victim of President Obama's Chicago-style use of the IRS to harass conservatives.
That, at least, was the impression Conners gave at first.
In 2012, Conners got a White House sit-down with Obama and asked some fair, cheeky questions about the president's conspicuous consumption. When the IRS scandal broke, Conners updated his Facebook page with a fearful post about how his interview may have led to harassment from the taxman.
"Shortly after I did my April 2012 interview with President Obama, my wife, friends and some viewers suggested that I might need to watch out for the IRS.
I don’t accept “conspiracy theories”, but I do know that almost immediately after the interview, the IRS started hammering me.
At the time, I dismissed the “co-incidence”, but now, I have concerns … after revelations about the IRS targeting various groups and their members..."
That post has since been taken down, after it circulated widely (and was copied widely) online. His station had pushed back; Conners had been taken off the air. Today, he was let go, and the station explained why.
Now, I've got a certain amount of unwanted expertise in this. Letting a reporter go because he showed "bias"? That's ridiculous, that's dreadful. Conners had already apologized... though, actually, his apology undercut the thing that made him so sympathetic.
"To be fair," he told viewers, "I should disclose that my issues with the IRS preceded that interview by several years."
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/05/22/tv_station_axes_reporter_who_sort_of_misleadingly_claimed_the_irs_was_after.html
< Message edited by Owner59 -- 5/23/2013 8:07:55 AM >
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