ABC Flip/Flops - NOW they will "air" Robert Kennedy Jr. interview (Autism)

[cthrumatrix]

ABC Flips: To Now Air 'Killed' Robert Kennedy Jr. Interview. ABC Responds ...



ABC News will now air the 'killed' Robert Kennedy Jr. interview after all.

ABC statement: “Had anyone called us about your unsourced posting I would have been glad to tell you that ABC News is hard at work on that report. We will air when and if we deem it ready, as our audience would expect. As for the rest of the post, at least as it pertains to ABC and ABC News, there isn't a shred of truth. I think your source is using you to try and influence us. That's ineffective, not to mention, dishonest.”

HuffPost responds: 1) Our post is based only on people involved first hand. 2) We stand behind our original story.

Previously, ABC corporate executives at the network's highest levels ordered three interviews with Robert Kennedy Jr. pulled from ABC News programming.

The interviews all centered around Mr. Kennedy's investigation of thimerosal, a mercury based preservative, used in vaccines given to children and believed to be responsible for increasing cases of neurological diseases including autism.

Mr. Kennedy's interviews were slated for prime shows ABC World News Tonight, 20/20, and Good Morning America. Salon.com and Rolling Stone Magazine have exclusive rights to Mr. Kennedy’s article and they embargoed his story on other networks because of his arrangement with ABC.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/2005/06/abc-bosses-tell-abc-news-.html


I guess they got a couple of calls and realize that "they really look

like shit".... if they would decide to cover actual news we might have

something.

[Mnemosyne]

1. They are such whores, bet the WH gave them a call.

"We will air when and if we deem it ready, as our audience would expect." If, is the key word here.

No wonder I can't tolerate the corporate media, such liars and hobags!

Thanks for the update cthru!

[cthrumatrix]

3. I think Lilly and Merck need to be "exposed".....and acountable.

I am all for them having their day in court ...in front of all the

families affected by thier drugs.

[Mnemosyne]

4. Amen. It's time.

Time for ALL the bullshit to end.

[H2O Man]

2. The media is funny that way:

if you make it in one paper or on one network, usually all will cover you. If one refuses you, usually they all ignore you. But what ABC will do is to try to packageRobert in a way that implies he is an extremist, or an oddity. That troubled young man who is projecting those inner-demons that the Kennedy Clan has in its genes. That most "respected" scientists disagree with him, much as "respected" civil rights leaders disagreed with Martin's confrontational tactics.

[K-W]

5. I think the people who told them to pull it....

realized that pulling it gave the story incredible publicity and they would have been better off just letting it air.

[Eric J in MN]

6. "when and if we deem it ready"

That isn't encouraging.


Especially not the "if" part

[me b zola]

7. They smeared (or darn close to it) RK Jr. tonight on the news

In their 'A Closer Look' segment they showed a single sentence statement/video clip from Kennedy, but then several people to smear him, with all of them essentially saying that science did not support a causal link between thimerosal and Autism, & that Kennedy is not a physician and so on.

It was disgusting:puke:

[K-W]

8. Well, he did get the issue out there.

The question has been raised.

[Junkdrawer]

9. I'll give you an example of the kind of problem he faces...

You may not know that Salon had to print a correction. In the correction it states:

The article also misstated the level of ethylmercury received by infants injected with all their shots by the age of six months. It was 187 micrograms -- an amount 40 percent, not 187 times, greater than the EPA's limit for daily exposure to methylmercury.

http://www.salon.com/letters/corrections/2005/index.html#thimerosal

Sounds bad, huh? Well the problem comes in because of the word "limit". The EPA "limit" for one portion of fish is 120 micrograms. However, the EPA "recommendation" for one day's serving of fish, for a 22 lb. 6-month-old is 1 microgram. So if RFK Jr. had said "recommendation" instead of "limit", no correction would have been necessary.

BTW: That 120 microgram limit is the result of an awful legal ruling (United States v. Anderson Seafoods, Inc., 622F.2d157, 1980) that is documented here:

http://uspirg.org/reports/brainfoodreport.pdf

And yes, who sits on the Federal circuit court makes a big difference.