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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 28 March 2017
Hannity angry at treatment by CBS in interview

DAVID BAUDER president. on CBS to release the un-
AP Television Writer “You’re cynical,” Hannity edited interview so people
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News said. “I am cynical, Kop- could see the “games” be-
Channel’s Sean Hannity pel replied. “Do you think ing played by editors.
is calling on CBS News to we’re bad for America? Hannity didn’t indicate
release the full tape of his You think I’m bad for Amer- that his words were edited
interview with Ted Koppel ica?” Hannity asked. to make them appear mis-
for “Sunday Morning,” in “Yeah,” Koppel said. leading; he just seemed
which the veteran “Night- Koppel said he lumped upset that so much got left
line” anchor answered Hannity in with other opin- on the cutting-room floor.
“yes” when Hannity asked ion shows and that while he CBS News didn’t respond to
if Koppel thought he was thought Hannity was “very Hannity’s request Monday.
bad for America. good at what you do,” his Koppel said he was con-
The exchange between audience feels ideology is tent to let the story speak
two different generations more important than facts. for itself.
of television news personal- It was one of two excerpts Koppel has expressed simi-
ities continued to resonate of Koppel’s interview with lar opinions before. In an In this combination photo, Ted Koppel, left, prepares for the
Monday: It was the lead Hannity that was included appearance on Fox’s “The taping of his last broadcast of “Nightline,” on Nov. 22, 2005 in
“hot topic” that hosts of in the broader 10-minute O’Reilly Factor” last year, Washington and Sean Hannity of Fox News, speaks during the
“The View” kicked around story, and it quickly attract- Koppel told host Bill O’Reilly Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), on March 4,
on their talk show. ed attention. CBS News that he had changed the 2016, in National Harbor, Md.
Hannity was interviewed for fanned it, breaking out a television landscape by Associated Press
the Sunday show’s cover 45-second clip of their ex- taking news from being chel Maddow to task in CBS News released a
story about partisan media, change for its website and objective and dull to sub- a speech at the National lengthier outtake of Kop-
and sensed some unease writing a story about it. jective and entertaining. Press Club. pel’s interview with Han-
by Koppel when he dis- Hannity, in a series of When O’Reilly said that “I don’t want to know what nity online Saturday, before
cussed his role as an opin- tweets, criticized the re- Koppel believed that “peo- she thinks about these is- the television report aired.
ion host. Hannity is a fer- port as “fake edited news. ple like me have ruined sues,” he said. “I really Hannity discussed his work-
vent supporter of President I did about a 45-minute in- the country,” the former don’t. I want to hear her ing class background, criti-
Donald Trump and has at- terview with CBS. They ran ABC newsman answered, informed reporting. I want cisms of former President
tacked his opponents and less than two. Why did Ted “That’s right.” to hear her interview peo- Barack Obama and his at-
traditional media outlets cut out my many examples In 2012, Koppel also took ple with that sharp mind of titudes toward liberals and
for how they report on the of media bias?” He called MSNBC’s liberal host Ra- hers.” journalism.q