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Pompeo Interview Dispute with NPR Sends Conflicting Message on Press Freedom


U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s contentious interview with an American news broadcaster, and apparent retaliation after, is “not what a democracy should be doing,” a member of a press freedom advocacy organization said Wednesday.Last week, Pompeo abruptly ended an interview with National Public Radio reporter Mary Louise Kelly when she changed the topic from Iran to Ukraine and challenged the secretary’s claim that he supported former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.Kelly was then called into a private meeting with Pompeo where she said Pompeo “shouted at me for about the same amount of time as the interview itself …read more

Source:: Voice of America

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