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In an interview on Wednesday in Colorado, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney grew frustrated with KCNC reporter Shaun Boyd when she asked him a viewer’s question about medical marijuana (after she had pressed him on the issue of same-sex marriage).

Romney was still talking about the incident on Thursday and, on Friday afternoon, it was at the center of an on-air argument between MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall and Washington Examiner columnist Tim Carney (video above). Read more

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Mitt Romney fielded questions with the poise of a seasoned presidential candidate during a series of one-on-one interviews with Denver reporters on Wednesday, but at one point he became frustrated with KCNC‘s Shaun Boyd when she asked him a question that a viewer had shared on the station’s Facebook page.

After pressing Romney on the issue same-sex marriage, Boyd asked him a viewer’s question about medical marijuana.

“Aren’t there issues of significance that you’d like to talk about?” Romney shot back. Read more

While President Obama was preparing to sit for an exclusive interview with ABC News, in which he would express his support for same-sex marriage, Mitt Romney was in Colorado, talking to local reporters.

Just hours before news broke of Obama’s gay marriage pronouncement, Romney affirmed his opposition to same-sex unions in interviews with reporters from a handful of Denver stations.

On Tuesday night, Republicans in the Colorado state house of representatives blocked a bill that would have allowed same-sex civil unions, so on Wednesday reporters from KDVR, KUSA, and KCNC asked Romney to discuss his stance on the issue. Read more

Kyle Clark, an anchor at Denver NBC-affiliate KUSA, turned the tables on NBC’s David Gregory in an interview this week in Washington, DC (watch above).

Clark interviewed Gregory on the set of “Meet the Press,” the Sunday political affairs show he hosts on NBC. Gregory said Colorado is a vital state to the Presidential election this year. Read more

Mike Headrick is joining KSL in Salt Lake City from KDVR in Denver.

Headrick will make the move from KDVR immediately after the May sweeps period concludes, he tells TVSpy. He will anchor the 5 p.m. newscast and be an investigative reporter for KSL. He takes over for Bruce Lindsay, who is set to retire this summer after 34 years with the station.

Headrick is the morning anchor at KDVR. He will be replaced by Nick Emmons.

Nick Emmons is joining KDVR, the Fox-affiliate in Denver, as morning anchor.

Emmons joins the station from KION in Salinas, where he was also a morning anchor. He replaces Mike Headrick, who is leaving for Salt Lake City, according to the Denver Post. Headrick joined KDVR from KUTV in Salt Lake City in 2009.

The Denver Post also reports KDVR has hired sportscaster Kami Carmann from rival KMGH, the ABC-affiliate in Denver.

Six weeks after being bitten by a dog on the air, anchor Kyle Dyer returned to KUSA this morning (video above).

Dyer, who heard from people from around the world during her time away from the Denver NBC-affiliate, said she hopes her experience has helped raise awareness about how to interact with dogs. Read more

Six weeks after being bitten on the face by a dog on the morning newscast, anchor Kyle Dyer is returning to Denver’s KUSA on Monday, the Associated Press reports.

Dyer was injured during an interview with the dog’s owner about the dramatic rescue after the Argentine Mastiff fell through the ice. The Argentine Mastiff, Max, bit the anchor on the lip, resulting in four hours of reconstructive surgery and 70 stitches.

“Woke up at 5am to get ready for an even earlier alarm on Monday,” Dyer wrote on Facebook this morning. “Yes, I’m headed back to work! Happy Weekend!”

A key aspect of the Denver Broncos’ courtship of Peyton Manning was the ability to keep the media at a distance while he met with team officials.

Sports Illustrated‘s Peter King reports that part of the Broncos’ strategy for avoiding media attention during Manning’s free agent visit to Denver last month was deploying a fleet of decoy vehicles when the star quarterback was on the move: Read more

A confrontation between Occupy Denver protesters and a reporter turned nasty recently after the protesters walked into a KDVR live shot holding an obscene sign. After he was clear, the reporter, Eli Stokols, confronted the protesters: “When I’m live on f-cking television — and you can film this — when I’m live on television, you don’t come up and f-ck us up,” he said (video above).

Stokols spoke about the incident today with Westword, which first published the video:

When this first started, when the first showdowns were imminent, we were down there all the time, and this is not uncommon. I’ve done live shots with signs behind me saying “Fox News is the devil,” and that’s not a problem. I don’t even tell them to get out of the way, because they’re the reason why we’re there and they can say what they want. But saying something like “f-ck the police” on a live broadcast is different.  Read more