HOWARD KURTZ: House Democrats chase TV drama, but hearings may fall flat
This just in: theJust like most congressional hearings, designed to generate maximum publicity and media attention.But despite the panel’s efforts to build suspense, I’m not sure it will boffo at the box office.
James Goldston, the former president of ABC News, who once produced"Good Morning America" and"Nightline," is the panel’s maestro of the moment, according to an Axios scoop. He’s planning the show"as if it were a blockbuster investigative special."I see several factors that will likely depress the drama once the hearings are underway, even if they do show theRep.
But the Jan. 6 hearings will be run by one team, the Democrats, given Kevin McCarthy’s decision to pull his nominees when Nancy Pelosi objected to a couple of them. The two Republican panelists–and have broken with their party on the importance of Jan. 6. Successful hearings often create indelible moments. When a congressional lawyer asked commie-hunter Joseph McCarthy"have you no sense of decency?", it helped lead to his Senate censure and eventual downfall. When the Senate Watergate Committee called a minor witness, Alexander Butterfield, who revealed the existence of a White House taping system, it led to Richard Nixon having to turn over the tapes under Supreme Court edict and his resignation days later.
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