Terry Gross
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Terry Gross (born 1951) is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, a interview-format radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by National Public Radio. Gross has won praise over the years for her low-key and friendly, yet probing style as an interviewer, and for the diversity of guests on the program. She has also been criticized by those who see her as liberal, and unfriendly to conservative politics and religious viewpoints.
Gross grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She began her radio career in 1973 at WBFO, a public radio station in Buffalo, New York.
Clashing with guests
Gross draws the most attention when clashing with guests, something that happens rarely. Perhaps most notable was an October 8, 2003 interview with conservative television host Bill O'Reilly, who walked out of the interview because of what he considered her biased questions, creating a media controversy fed by the ongoing presidential campaign.
Another much-noted instance of a difficult interview came on 4 February 2002 with rock star Gene Simmons, who at one point said "If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs," to which Gross replied, "That's a really obnoxious thing to say."
External link
- NPR biography (http://www.npr.org/about/people/bios/tgross.html)]