CNN, Fox, ABC hosts ignored key issues in interviews of Kean: his relation

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CNN, Fox, ABC hosts ignored key issues in interviews of Kean: his relationship with The Path to 9/11 producers, possible benefit to his son's Senate campaign

Summary: Hosts on CNN, ABC, and Fox News failed to raise key issues while interviewing Thomas H. Kean about his role as a senior consultant to the ABC's The Path to 9/11 -- specifically, the terms of his arrangement with ABC and the possible benefit of Kean's high-profile promotion of the conservative-skewed miniseries to the campaign of his namesake son, who is running as a Republican for a Senate seat in New Jersey.

During interviews about the ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11 with former New Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean (R), chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States -- also known as the 9-11 Commission -- the hosts of CNN's Paula Zahn Now, Fox News' Fox & Friends, and ABC's Good Morning America failed to raise key issues with Kean bearing on his role as a senior consultant to the film: What are the terms of his arrangement with ABC? Might his son, Thomas H. Kean Jr., who is challenging Democrat Bob Menendez for his New Jersey Senate seat, not benefit from Kean's high-profile promotion of a film that falsely presents the actions of President Clinton, who is campaigning for Menendez; by promoting a film that smears a Democratic administration through fabricated scenes, is Kean not tarnishing his own image and that of the 9-11 Commission, which has to date acted in a largely bipartisan manner and produced a report that has garnered wide respect?

Meanwhile, CNN host Wolf Blitzer, in his September 8 interview with Kean, noted that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former national security adviser Samuel "Sandy" Berger stated in a letter to Kean, "Your continued defense of this deeply flawed production is especially hard to understand in light of your commendable leadership of the 9/11 Commission." But Blitzer too did not ask Kean about his financial arrangement with ABC, nor did he bring up his son's Senate candidacy, despite Kean's denial -- in a CNN report that aired minutes before -- that he would have any "political motivations."

More (video too):
http://mediamatters.org/items/200609090006?src=other

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1. Shouldn't karma

start to kick in on these guys?

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2. karma never declines a little help nt