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Julie Moos
Notes from journalists covering crisis, especially focused on journalistic questions, challenges, and lessons learned.
By Andrew Grossman

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News president Neal Shapiro has taken correspondent Ashleigh Banfield to the woodshed for a speech in which she criticized the networks for portraying the Iraqi war as "glorious and wonderful."

Banfield delivered her remarks Thursday at Kansas State University.

"She and we both agreed that she didn't intend to demean the work of her colleagues, and she will choose her words more carefully in the future," an NBC spokeswoman said Monday.

Posted by Julie Moos at 8:44 AM on Apr. 29, 2003
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