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BANFIELD SAYS SHE WAS "BANISHED" BY NBC

Former NBC News correspondent Ashleigh Banfield says that her career as a network journalist collapsed after she delivered a speech at Kansas State University following 9/11 urging her colleagues "not to wave the banner and cover warfare in a jingoistic way." In an interview with the TVNewser blog, Banfield, who now reports for CourtTV, said that the speech "didn't sit well with my employers at NBC -- who are no longer there. I think they overacted. I was banished. I sat in the outfield for a long time." After receiving many plaudits for her work covering the 9/11 attacks in New York, she added, she was exiled to "the warehouse while my contract petered out."

29/11/2007