Senator Hillary Clinton's office is actively trying to discourage interviewers from giving TV time to Ed Klein, author of the controversial bestseller "The Truth About Hillary," Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz confirmed on Sunday.
"A spokesman for Senator Clinton told me that when news organizations call, they do make the argument, why give this guy airtime," Kurtz said, while hosting CNN's "Reliable Sources."
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Kurtz's comment is the first by a mainstream journalist acknowledging that Sen. Clinton is actively trying to suppress Klein's book in a campaign first reported by NewsMax Monday morning.
After being booked on numerous TV Shows, Klein has been hit with a tidal wave of cancellations, with only one show - Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" - bucking the pressure to ignore the book.
Cable TV network sources contacted by NewsMax on Friday, however, said they hadn't been pressured to drop Klein.
Buffalo News columnist Douglas Turner suggested last week, however, that Mrs. Clinton has much of the press under her thumb, saying she "totally controls" their agenda.
"Her media operation is tightly controlled and highly protective, and not always responsive," he wrote.
"Clinton has met with the New York press corps only a couple of times since 2000," Turner noted. "By contrast with [her predecessor, Sen. Pat Moynihan's] regimen, where the reporters had a share in the agenda, Clinton totally controls it."
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