ABC Bosses Tell ABC News to cancel inteviews w/ RFK Jr. on Thimerosol

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ABC Bosses Tell ABC News Kill The Interviews With Kennedy Jr. …

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ABC corporate executives at the network's highest levels ordered three

interviews with 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.

Mr. Kennedy’s article was published today only in Rolling Stone and on

Salon.com. The article links the CDC, FDA and Bill Frist to major drug

companies, including GlaxoKline, Merck, Wyeth, and Aventis Pasteur that

continued to include thimerosal in their vaccines despite studies showing the

damage – and death – it caused in humans. In the 1990s the CDC and FDA

recommended three additional children's vaccines laced with thimerosal, totaling

twenty two federally recommended immunizations.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 from pharmaceutical

companies, tacked on the " Eli Lilly Protection Act " as a rider to a 2002

homeland security bill. The protection act was later repealed by Congress after

a public outcry. Senator Frist is making another attempt to harbor big

pharmaceuticals from families with infected children. He is appropriating the

war on terror again by attaching a provision to the " Protecting America in the

War On Terror " bill introduced to Congress this past January.

A 2001 Emory University Study watched ABC, CBS, and NBC in the Atlanta area for

one week and found 907 advertisements for over-the-counter drugs and 428

advertisements for prescription drugs.

Posted June 16, 2005 04:30 PM

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