Kurtz only CNN figure to note role Beck, Fox played in promoting 9-12 protests

SUMMARY: While much of CNN's coverage of the September 12 protest in Washington has made clear that the event included accusations of Nazism and communism, unsavory references to Sen. Edward Kennedy's death, and what Campbell Brown described as "really ugly, vicious, racist imagery," CNN has largely ignored a central facet of the event -- the role Glenn Beck and Fox News played in organizing and promoting it. Indeed, according to a Media Matters for America review of the Nexis database, media critic Howard Kurtz is the only CNN figure to have noted that role, stating that the protest was "something that Glenn Beck practically conceived, promoted."

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