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Host's Political Commentary Rocks Blogosphere

NPR | By Michel Martin,

Lee Hill

Published March 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM EDT

A recent commentary on by Tell Me More host Michel Martin on Sen. Barack Obama's relationship with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright stirs lots of emotion in the blogosphere. Hear listeners' responses to the piece.

Also, a Detroit resident says she's had enough of outsiders talking bad about her city.

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Michel Martin

Michel Martin is the weekend host of All Things Considered, where she draws on her deep reporting and interviewing experience to dig in to the week's news. Outside the studio, she has also hosted "Michel Martin: Going There," an ambitious live event series in collaboration with Member Stations.

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Lee Hill

Writer and blogger Lee Hill is a multimedia journalist and founding producer of Tell Me More hosted by Michel Martin – the first NPR program to begin as an open online project and evolve into an award-winning daily, national news and talk show with its own blog. He can be heard weekly – both on-air and online – reporting on happenings in the blogosphere as the show's "digital media guy" in the Tell Me More's Friday "BackTalk" segment.

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