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Rand Paul loves the spotlight. He just doesnt love the people who wield it.

In February, the Kentucky senator scolded CNBC anchor Kelly Evans as she tried to ask him about a bill he co-sponsored.

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You have taken an interview and youve made an interview into something where we got no useful information because you were argumentative and you started out with so many preoppositions [sic] that were incorrect, he said.

The interview continued, but Paul wasnt done with the tongue-lashing, and went back to media criticism a few minutes later.

Part of the problem is that you end up having interviews like this where the interview is so slanted and full of distortions that you dont get useful information, he said. I think this is what is bad about TV sometimes. So frankly, I think if we do this again, you need to start out with a little more objectivity going into the interview.

Clips of the interview quickly went viral as headlines blared how Rand Paul tears into, snaps, shushes and belittles the CNBC host.

Rand Paul needs to be shushed, read a headline from a piece by Joan Walsh on Salon.com. To some men, apparently, an assertive woman is out of control and needs to calm down especially if shes succeeded in upsetting his calm, she wrote.

PBS NewsHour host Gwen Ifill warned in a blog post soon after the interview that whether or not he considers questions from the press to be distorted, Paul might want to get used to concealing his irritation. That sort of viral video lives forever.

The tantrum was a rare case of Paul losing his temper on live TV, which hes made almost a second home as hes sought to build his brand ahead of his expected April 7 presidential launch. But his famed accessibility hes willing to submit to most Capitol Hill hallway interviews and even impromptu interviews on airplanes; hell hop on the phone with a junior reporter and talk to cable shouters from Bill Maher to Bill OReilly masks a relationship with the media that is anything but friendly. Reporters who cover Paul have called him thin-skinned, sensitive, wary and prickly. Others say he and his team will blame the media for his own mistakes, at some points freezing out reporters for perceived slights.

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Rand Paul and the media: No love story

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Facebook execs said on Tuesday afternoon that the social networking site has given news publishers underwhelming data reports about how many people see posts on its NewsFeed. NewsWhip, a ...

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ISTANBUL Turkey on Monday blocked access to social networking sites, including Twitter and YouTube, over photos showing a militant pointing a gun at a prosecutor who died last week in a failed hostage rescue operation. Access to Twitter was restored several hours later.

A spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a Turkish prosecutor had ordered Internet providers to block the sites. The request stemmed from postings of photos that showed militant Marxists pointing a gun at the prosecutor, Mehmet Selim Kiraz, who died in a shootout between police and the Marxists who were holding him hostage.

Government officials have blasted Turkish media for posting the images, which they have called anti-government propaganda. Kiraz, was shot in the head during the standoff and died in a hospital soon after.

The state-run Anadolu Agency said access was blocked because Twitter and YouTube didn't remove images of the prosecutor despite an official notification. It said the Internet Providers notified Twitter and YouTube, but video, photographs and audio continued to be posted on these sites. The Turkish telecommunications authority wouldn't immediately comment.

A government official said Turkey decided to lift the ban on Twitter in the late afternoon after the company agreed to remove all images of the prosecutor and telecoms authorities verified that it had done so. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

Twitter said earlier that it was working to restore access to users in Turkey.

"We are aware of reports of interruption of our service in Turkey, and we are working to restore access for our users as soon as possible," the company said in Turkish and in English through its (at)policy account.

The journalists group, Turkish Press Council, said that while it understood the authorities concerns over the publication of the prosecutors' photographs, it said banning social media websites was in conflict with democracy.

"It is meaningless to totally shut down social platforms -- which contain billions of useful information -- to the use of the Turkish people because of some unsuitable content," the group said.

Users meanwhile were sharing information on how to get around the ban on the Internet.

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Twitter restored after Turkey blocks social media over terror group photos

ISTANBUL (AP) - Turkey on Monday blocked access to social networking sites, including Twitter and YouTube, over photos showing a militant pointing a gun at a prosecutor who died last week in a failed hostage rescue operation. Access to Twitter was restored several hours later.

A spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a Turkish prosecutor had ordered Internet providers to block the sites. The request stemmed from postings of photos that showed militant Marxists pointing a gun at the prosecutor, Mehmet Selim Kiraz, who died in a shootout between police and the Marxists who were holding him hostage.

Government officials have blasted Turkish media for posting the images, which they have called anti-government propaganda. Kiraz, was shot in the head during the standoff and died in a hospital soon after.

The state-run Anadolu Agency said access was blocked because Twitter and YouTube didn't remove images of the prosecutor despite an official notification. It said the Internet Providers notified Twitter and YouTube, but video, photographs and audio continued to be posted on these sites. The Turkish telecommunications authority wouldn't immediately comment.

A government official said Turkey decided to lift the ban on Twitter in the late afternoon after the company agreed to remove all images of the prosecutor and telecoms authorities verified that it had done so. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

Twitter said earlier that it was working to restore access to users in Turkey.

"We are aware of reports of interruption of our service in Turkey, and we are working to restore access for our users as soon as possible," the company said in Turkish and in English through its @policy account.

The journalists group, Turkish Press Council, said that while it understood the authorities concerns over the publication of the prosecutors' photographs, it said banning social media websites was in conflict with democracy.

"It is meaningless to totally shut down social platforms - which contain billions of useful information - to the use of the Turkish people because of some unsuitable content," the group said.

Users meanwhile were sharing information on how to get around the ban on the Internet.

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Turkey blocks social media over slain prosecutor photos

Published: 8:54AM Tuesday April 07, 2015 Source: AP

Istanbul Security Chief Selami Altinok, center-right, and Deputy Chief Prosecutor Orhan Kapici speak to the media outside the main courthouse in Istanbul, Turkey. - Source: AP

Turkey today blocked access to social networking sites, including Twitter and YouTube, over photos showing a militant pointing a gun at a prosecutor who died last week in a failed hostage rescue operation.

Access to Twitter was restored several hours later.

A spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a Turkish prosecutor had ordered Internet providers to block the sites.

The request stemmed from postings of photos that showed militant Marxists pointing a gun at the prosecutor, Mehmet Selim Kiraz, who died in a shootout between police and the Marxists who were holding him hostage.

Government officials have blasted Turkish media for posting the images, which they have called anti-government propaganda. Kiraz, was shot in the head during the standoff and died in a hospital soon after.

The state-run Anadolu Agency said access was blocked because Twitter and YouTube didn't remove images of the prosecutor despite an official notification.

It said the Internet Providers notified Twitter and YouTube, but video, photographs and audio continued to be posted on these sites. The Turkish telecommunications authority wouldn't immediately comment.

A government official said Turkey decided to lift the ban on Twitter in the late afternoon after the company agreed to remove all images of the prosecutor and telecoms authorities verified that it had done so.

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Turkey blocks social media over hostage death photo