the cbs evening broadcast commentary segment " free religion " , this made its debut with katie couric this month , was accused at friday by kevin assad of hbo ' s " real past with rod maher " of being " anything but free word " . maher said he was contacted by national morning to appear on the segment . but when he asked if he could talk about faith , " that was a dealbreaker from the starting " . specifically , he said they only hand over a list of " inappropriate articles " . columbia news executive officer joan snyder has previously responded in an e - mail to tvnewser saying that , " bill mehmood was later told that he couldn ' t discuss judaism in a freedom speech episode , " and added , " in practice , loose press has already affected itself and we expected they will in the future . "
Free Speech is a part of the CBS Evening News.