St. Louis Post Dispatch

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Longtime KMOV (Channel 4) anchorman Larry Conners is “off the air” until further notice.

The station is examining Conners’ recent allegations that he was targeted by the Internal Revenue Service after interviewing President Barack Obama.

“He’s not suspended. We just all thought it made sense (for him) to take a few days off,” news director Sean McLaughlin said Thursday.

“We take this very seriously, and we don’t expect this to drag on. We’re still looking into the situation and weighing our options,” he said.

The situation arose Monday night with a post from Conners on his Facebook page. In that post, Conners said he had been getting “pressure” from the IRS after the Obama interview in April 2012.

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Michael Valentine, vice president of content for Belo Corp., KMOV’s parent company, told the news website BuzzFeed that Conners “owes a duty to our viewers to report in an unbiased manner.”

“His Facebook post and his Twitter posts, as a result, were inappropriate,” he said. “And we don’t condone personal posts that jeopardize the journalistic nature of our business. It’s really that simple.”

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Well Valentine, thanks for exposing that Conners is correct and that you are indeed biased.

In other words,"We took that villain off the air. PLEASE don't audit us,too! It was him and ONLY him that is to blame. Take him and his children,but PLEASE leave us alone!"

A healthy and fearless press is a sign of a free country.

KMOV's Conners Barred From Facebook, Interviews on IRS Controversy