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Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman to quit
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May 2, 2014
Original URL: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Newsnight_presenter_Jeremy_Paxman_to_quit



The presenter of BBC's ''Newsnight'' show, Jeremy Paxman, said Wednesday
he is to leave after 25 years. The BBC said Paxman had postponed his
departure, after deciding upon it last summer, because ''Newsnight'' was
going through "a difficult period".

Paxman became a notorious political interviewer after tearing a great
number of political leaders apart: In an interview with Michael Howard
regarding the 1995 dismissal of the director of the prison service,
Derek Lewis, when Howard didn't directly answer a question, Paxman asked
again  --  eleven more times. In an interview with Tony Blair, he asked
Blair whether he prayed with US president George W. Bush. More recently,
when Conservative MP and junior minister Chloe Smith appeared on the
show to defend a change in fuel duty policy, Paxman showed she was
apparently too too junior to have any knowledge of the decision making
process.

Paxman is not leaving his twenty-year role as presenter of ''University
Challenge''.

== Sources == 

* http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27230684
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27225422
* http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/30/jeremy-paxmans-top-10-newsnight-moments
* http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/30/jeremy-paxman-quit-newsnight-bbc



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