What Is Howie Kurtz's agenda at WaPo?
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 11:50amEric Boehlert at Media Matters:
Attentive readers of Howard Kurtz's washingtonpost.com weekday media column may have noticed that on the fifth and final page of his 3,000-word December 6 post, Kurtz finally addressed the media controversy that erupted when Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald highlighted an egregious error made by Time magazine columnist Joe Klein. Klein had mocked a supposed Democratic legislative maneuver in Congress for being "well beyond stupid" and stressed how Democrats remain soft on the war on terror.[..]
The story, which raged online for more than two weeks and was commented upon by virtually every major liberal blogger, unfolded at the intersection between politics and media -- the same intersection that Kurtz writes about for a living as perhaps the most-read media writer in the country. Yet for weeks Kurtz remained silent about the Klein story; nothing in the Post, nothing in his online daily column, and nothing on CNN's Reliable Sources, the weekly media program that he hosts.
The deafening silence was baffling. As Greenwald noted in an email to me, "The story involved the most-read political journal in the country and one of the best-known pundits. It entailed numerous key media issues which Kurtz is assigned to cover, including the corrupt use of anonymous sources, uncritical reliance by reporters on partisan spin, and a media outlet's refusal to correct its errors honestly and clearly."
Unsurprisingly, nearly 3 pages of Kurtz's 5 page post was about either Bill or Hillary Clinton, neither getting particularly flattering coverage.
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Yes - Kurtz is a putz. He loves to go rooting through the Clinton underwear draws, especially if he's chatting to Chris Matthews. What is up with their obsession with Hillary? These guys must be whipped a home, if you know what I'm saying.
Kurtz is a manipulator,idiot, neocon putz liar!!
Lindy
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Howare "The pro-neocon waterboy" should be waterboarded. Because, hey, it's NOT torture!
Agenda:
whatever it is, it is decidedly not good. I wish he would cut his hair,, it is misleading.
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Whoops, that's Howard.
What is Howie Kurtzs agenda at Wapo?
Ummm... to continue getting paid by his corporate masters?
When the history of this era is written I bet it'll show that THOUSANDS of "journalists" were on the White House or CIA payroll.
You guys have to realize. Howie is married to a Republican spinster and is, himself, the ultimate insider.
Also he will never attack a fellow major journalist. Look at how hard he has been rooting for Don Imus' return.
Once in the Old Boys Club, ALWAYS in the Old Boys Club.
We have to shoot down the assumed and pseudo-impartiality of partisans like Howard Kurtz.
OT - The fact that Dennis Kucinich is being excluded from today's debate is an OUTRAGE. I guess the requirement(s) to be included in today's Democratic debate are:
(1) Voted for the Patriot Act 1 and 2
(2) Voted for the hideous Military Comissions Act
(3) Given Bush authorization for Iraq War
(4) Funded the war without question
(5) Taken bucketloads of money from Corporate Donors
(6) Make sure insurance companies make billions from your health insurance plan
(7) Refused to Defend the Constitution and uphold your oath
** If you haven't met ANY of these requirements you cannot particpate in an Iowa Democratic debate.
Could be worse. Today in the Dallas Morning Nudes they ran a column in the editorials by michele (gri)malkin.
rasta @ 7:
Do you have the email addresses for the people at NBC, MSNBC or CBS? Thanks.
don't hate me @ 12:
sorry to continue the OT, but i did not know Dennis was banned from the debate... what gives? whose decision was that? not the des moines register, was it? seeing as crazy man keyes was a part of the GOP debate yesterday...
consider me angered
no surprise. kurtz is scum. he is just as much an enemy of progressives as his bunkmate.
rachel maddow had him on her show last week and thanklfully he had no room for his usual wankery.
Sigh. I left a comment with similar sentiments when Kurtz wrote the piece. It's nice he finally covered it, but why the delay, and why so little focus? Were he not a hack, it would have been the focus of at least one column.
Howie's a dinner party circuitist who thinks allowing repubs to lie is "balance"
Samson- @ 15:
The excuse is that his campaign chair in Iowa works from home. They claim his chair must have a rented office. This is nothing more than an excuse thought up at the last minute to censor him. If you're pissed here's a link to an article with phone numbers to call.
http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=1521
do people really still care about print media opinion dopes? their entire universe is disintegrating, so i'm not sure it's even worth worrying about. dopes like Kurtz just don't really matter anymore.
Is that a rhetorical question, C&L? Hmmm...bring down the republic, self aggrandizement, graft taking, kickbacks, aids in successful self abuse?
I don't know.
The same as it's always been - Whatever benefits Howie the Hack and the friends and family of Howie the Hack.
There is no possible justification for added the psychotic, coalition of the clueless likes of Alan Keyes and subtracting Kucinich.
Of course, there's no possible justification for any of these sham debates as they've been conducted so at the end of the day, what the hell difference does it make. It only serves to further illustrate the complete and utter absurdity of the entire process.
On a brighter note, at least Pat Leahy finally issued Contempt Cites to Rovesputin and Boltneck. It's about fookin' time.
In the spirit of the season, they should rip off their fookin' heads and shite down their necks just to limber up and get the blood flowin'.
and what do KURTZ and KLIEN have in common?
and this is news ... how? Howie is a Mole.
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