Another Giuliani interview, another failure to disclose Hannity's reported appearance at Giuliani fundraiser

Published: January 4, 2008, 5:14 pm

Tags: sean hannity, fox news channel, hannity amp colmes, 2008 elections, government and elections, rudy giuliani

On the January 3 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity interviewed Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani but again did not disclose during the seven-minute segment that he has reportedly helped raise money for Giuliani's campaign. On August 19, 2007, the New York Daily News reported that Hannity "introduced the Republican front-runner at a closed-door, $250-per-head fundraiser Aug. 9 in Cincinnati, campaign officials acknowledge." Bill Shine, Fox's senior vice president of programming, was quoted in the article saying, "Sean is not a journalist -- Sean is a conservative commentator." As Media Matters for America documented, Hannity also failed to disclose his reported involvement with the Giuliani campaign in a December 17 interview with Giuliani and an October 16, 2007, interview with Giuliani and his wife, Judith. From the August 19, 2007, Daily News article: It's no secret that Sean Hannity,

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