Reply #49: My e-ltr to ABC & The View about Bahbwah WAHwah's blackballing [View All]

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The hypocrisy of Barbara WALTERS and ABC regarding the blackballing of Kitty KELLEY (the Oprah book)

Ms WALTERS is probably single-handedly responsible for turning "news" into entertainment, personality-driven, and gossip, yet she is playing holier-than-thou about Ms KELLEY's books, and especially this recent one on Oprah. Ms WALTERS and her employees DAILY talk about other people's lives, and it is NOT any different from Ms KELLEY's books.

Ms WALTERs' career, until her recent book, consisted of digging into other people's private lives WHILE always keeping her own above-it-all. I suspect that her personal revelations, which AFFECTED OTHERS, were the result that her publicity was winding down with her career and this was the last gasp to gain another round of attention.

First, the word "gossip" has NO dictionary meaning that equates with "UN-truth." 2nd, Ms KELLEY interviews 800+ sources for each book and has never been successfully sued.

The cravenness of the media towards Ms KELLEY began with her book on the BUSH family, with cowardly kow-towing to the intimidation from that notoriously mafia-style BUSH machine.

I will be switching from GMA/ABC to Today/NBC, although LAUER was hostile towards Ms KELLEY in his previous interview on the BUSH book, since at least NBC is not blackballing.