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Donahue--War Casualty
Nichols, John | March 24, 2003 issue

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The article comments on the cancellation of the cable television talk show Donahue. Whatever the merits of the U.S. talk show, the maneuvers that led to its cancellation illustrate the extent to which basic commitments to honest dialogue on the networks are collapsing as the threat of war becomes more real. The show was expanding its countdown to the proposed Iraq war. In the weeks after the show went on air, it was possible to imagine that Phil Donahue might actually be allowed to do a show that mattered. The administration of President George W. Bush started to turn up the rhetoric about Iraq, and executives at MSNBC pressured Donahue to slow down the discussion and to limit dissent.

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DONAHUE (TV program); IRAQ War, 2003-; PRESS & politics; MSNBC; DONAHUE, Phil; TELEVISION talk shows; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; UNITED States
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