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Murphy excluded from WGRZ debate for mocking Scott Levin
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy May 09, 2011 06:05pm |
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| Author | Ian Murphy |
| News Date | Monday, May 9, 2011 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ERIE COUNTY—Ian Murphy, Green Party candidate for New York’s 26th Congressional District, has been excluded from the May 12th debate by local NBC affiliate WGRZ-TV, for calling their anchor Scott Levin a “tall, orange robot.” AP has confirmed that Murphy was excluded for ‘insulting’ Levin.
The news came in a letter from Jeff Woodard, WGRZ-TV’s News Director, only days after Murphy received an invitation to the debate, hand-delivered by Scott Levin himself, with only one day left to RSVP.
The letter had been dated April 15th, but was delivered on the 28th. When Murphy still
managed to respond in time, the “2 on your side” team was forced to come up with another excuse to exclude Murphy.
At issue appears to be a satirical account of the Levin encounter that Murphy posted at BuffaloBeast.com, a political humor website for which he serves as Editor-in-Chief.
“In that blog,” wrote WGRZ’s Woodard, “you wrote about Scott delivering you the invitation, and refer to Scott as a ‘tall, orange robot.’ … You also greatly distorted the conversation you had with Scott to the point of turning it into a vulgar satire.”
Vulgarity notwithstanding, Ian Murphy is a well-known political satirist, and there is simply no way the people at WGRZ didn’t already know that. Their objection appears to stem only from the fact that Murphy hurt their feelings.
This is just another example of the local media blackout on Murphy’s candidacy, along with his recent exclusion from candidate profiles featured in the Buffalo News. While the national media has covered Murphy’s campaign, our local press prefers to ignore him, and keep its audience in the dark. |
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