ABC charged with blocking Kennedy interviews

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ABC charged with blocking Kennedy interviews

SEATTLE -- Corporate executives at ABC allegedly ordered three

interviews with Kennedy Jr. pulled from the network’s news

programming last week, according to the website Uninformed Consent.

The interviews were to center on 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.

Kennedy's interviews were slated for three prime shows †" ABC World

News Tonight, 20/20, and Good Morning America. They were to coincide

with the publication of an article by Kennedy on Salon.com and in

Rolling Stone. The publications embargoed the story on other networks

because of Kennedy’s arrangement with ABC.

The article links the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the

Food and Drug Administration, and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill

Frist to major drug companies, including GlaxoKline, Merck, Wyeth

and Aventis Pasteur, charging that they 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 children's vaccines including thimerosal.

posted on June 23, 2005