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Romney Meets The Press.

Mitt Romney will sit down for interviews with ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and Fox News on Friday, according to multiple reports.

Romney will speak with ABC's Jon Karl, NBC's Peter Alexander, CBS' Jan Crawford and CNN's Jim Acosta, network sources confirmed to The Huffington Post's Michael Calderone. The interviews are scheduled to take place between 3 and 4 p.m. BuzzFeed reports that the exchanges will air on nightly news broadcasts.

The candidate will also sit down with Fox News' Carl Cameron in an exchange that will air on Friday's "Special Report," according to Bret Baier.

The slate of television appearances comes at the end of a rough week for the Romney campaign. Romney's record at Bain Capital — which has been a significant point of criticism for the candidate thus far — was called into question again after new records suggest he stayed on at the company until 2002. They contradict his claim that he left in 1999, and he was not responsible for workers laid off or companies that went bankrupt under the private equity firm after that date.

The interviews also mark a departure from Romney's usual media strategy. Since embarking on his 2012 campaign, the candidate has largely favored Fox News for his appearances.

He stayed off Sunday shows for twenty consecutive months before appearing on "Fox News Sunday" in December 2011. Romney recently expanded his press exposure to CBS, ABC and CNN. He spoke with CBS News' Bob Schieffer in June for his first non-Fox News Sunday show appearance of the current campaign.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/13/mitt-romney-network-interviews-abc-nbc-cbs_n_1671808.html