Note that Kurtz is concerned only with gun control and says nothing about school safety. But this is how the media game is rigged… You have a left-wing media pushing left-wing politicians to pass gun control, and should that fail, as back-up
Kind of a no-brainer pick for “Time,” but check out this slobbering love affair of purplish prose oozing from the pores of editor Rick Stengel: Obama is the first Democratic president since FDR to win more than 50% of the vote
A heated exchange on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” between Frank Sesno, Lauren Ashburn, David Zurawik & Howard Kurtz. The panel discussed the multitude of errors broadcast by media outlets while reporting on the developing story on Friday.
Ths morning the New York Post ran a huge cover photo of a man about to die — literally. Pushed off a New York subway platform, the photo captures Ki-Suck-Han seconds before an oncoming train is about to barrel down on
This morning, media critic Howard Kurtz launched a defense of left-wing actor Alec Baldwin coupled with a truly bizarre attack against New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser. Kurtz, though, doesn’t make a lick of sense or approach anything close to a point. All
So a few days ago, a guest came on Fox News and started ripping Fox News, and the anchor cut the interview short. And now, The Incredibly Useless Howard Kurtz is still on about it, up to and including a big,
The shingle on Howard Kurtz’s office reads “media critic,” but these days “palace guard” is a more accurate moniker. Kurtz, who toils for both the liberal Daily Beast and left-leaning CNN, is defending today’s comedian class for dereliction of duties. Namely,
Jennifer Rubin took on Howard Kurtz and David Shuster to criticize the debate performance by Candy Crowley last week. Rubin pointed out that the President referred to a bunch of terrorist attacks at the end of his speech in the
Howard Kurtz had his say when Mitt Romney’s campaign announced that they had canceled Romney’s Thursday appearance on ABC’s “The View”.
Other than answering a question about the Olympics honestly but less diplomatically than he might have, Mitt Romney’s overseas trip was a pretty big win. But the corrupt media knows that, in order for their failed president to win a
So many celebrities for President Barack Obama to visit … and so little time between now and Election Day. So the Obama campaign wants you to help the Commander-in-Chief decide which lucky star will rub elbows with him, according to
CNN’s Howard Kurtz told “The Wrap” that the information given to the New York Times and other news outlets had to come from someone in the Administration because of the nature of the information.
A thorough new biography of Walter Cronkite by Douglas Brinkleyreveals that he was not the unbiased journalist his supporters havealways claimed him to be. In fact, he was a liberal who used his positionas America’s top anchor to promote the
Tom Brokaw is worried that Washington is out of touch. People feel politics “is a closed game that doesn’t address what their real concerns are,” he told Howard Kurtz of the Daily Beast. “It has its own language, it has
Joe Muto sat down with CNN’s Howard Kurtz for an interview that will air tomorrow morning on Reliable Sources. Photo: JEFF BACHNER FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
According to Howard Kurtz at The Daily Beast, near the end of his Current TV tenure, Keith Olbermann was channeling a combination of Howard Hughes and the Gerber Baby, as opposed to some latter day Walter Winchell–though the fledgling network, Gore’s
Over a month after the Daily Caller began exposing Media Matters’ internal workings, including funding from left-wing allies, bizarre office hijinks, anti-Semitic employees, backdoor payoffs to former lovers, and connections with the Obama Administration, the organization remains largely silent. The
CNN’s Howard Kurtz grilled director Jay Roach and screenwriter Danny Strong on their depiction of Gov. Sarah Palin in the HBO film “Game Change.” The filmmakers defended their portrayal, stating their sources went beyond Mark Halperin’s and John Heilemann’s book,
A lot has been written lately regarding the upcoming HBO movie, “Game Change.” based on a book written in 2009 with the same name. Feeling the heat, HBO released a statement last week: “HBO’s ‘Game Change’ is a balanced portrayal
Back in another millennium, when radical left-wing blog queen Arianna Huffington was still a “conservative columnist” and wearing dowdy Republican elephant broaches, I was employed as her researcher. From 1997 to 1999, I worked with Arianna on her twice-weekly column,
CNN’s Howard Kurtz got petulant with The Daily Caller’s Vince Coglianese over the Caller-led Media Matters for America investigation, insinuating that their use of anonymous sources debunks their credibility. Kurtz asked, “How would you feel if I wrote a story
The best thing about this clip is that Howard Kurtz doesn’t actually catch that the contributor is being sarcastic.
CNN’s Howard Kurtz stretched the definition of “conservative” when he introduced his Daily Beast colleague Andrew Sullivan as one on “Reliable Sources.” Sullivan went on to explain to Kurtz that he is the true conservative compared to the Republican Party
Howard Kurtz to Politico’s Jonathan Martin: You had to make a go or no-go decision. I think that at a lot of news organizations an editor would’ve said, ‘You have done some terrific reporting here, you’ve got some great leads
– Is Wikileaks fading? But many others were wondering if it was one more indication that the WikiLeaks movement, which changed the face of journalism and the entire informational ecosystem, could be in doubt as well. Although stateless and seemingly
—– In the segment above, it’s fascinating to watch Howard Kurtz and his two guests, Glynis MacNicol and Paul Farhi, agree 100% with one another. This, of course, is how the MSM creates their own reality, how they intentionally create
From Breitbart.tv: For the record, Mr. Schultz stated that he regretted the error of including a deceptively edited video clip of Gov. Perry. He never apologized for the racist implication he made with the severely edited clip. A media watchdog
This disingenuous position put forth by Friedman is really the best strategy to keep President Obama in the White House. Journalist Howard Kurtz didn’t point out the fact that a 3rd party challenge would most certainly benefit President Obama’s re-election.
Recently ousted NBC News host Cenk Uygur tells CNN’s Howard Kurtz why he thinks he was replaced by Rev. Al Sharpton. You can write-off Uygar’s criticism as sour grapes, but after watching Sharpton’s appearance a few months ago on 60
Now that Congressman Anthony Weiner has admitted to sending out the infamous tweet, it is time to demand explanations from members of the “mainstream press” who, inexplicably, failed to ask the simplest of questions during “WeinerGate.” It took Weiner calling
**UPDATE: I missed this earlier, but in another tweet, Kurtz offered the Clinton sex scandal–the one Kurtz’s Newsweek attempted to kill–as an example of unbiased media coverage of a Democrat sex scandal! The hubris is breathtaking. Kurtz also suggests that
On CNN’s Reliable Sources, host Howard Kurtz discussed the shameful post on Wonkette that attacked Sarah Palin’s son with Down Syndrome. But, Kurtz barely mentions the #TrigsCrew movement on Twitter that shamed Wonkette into removing the post and inspired advertisers
Evidently, the newspeak definition of ‘misinformation’ is actually ‘opinions with which I don’t agree’. According to Media Matters for America that is, as The Right Sphere points out. They use an example given in Howard Kurtz’s article “Partisan Organizations Use
Please excuse my manners – I will postpone formally introducing myself to a later occasion, but time is precious. As of now, you likely know me as “Ibrahim Kasaam” from the recent undercover videos released by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.
And apparently, the folks at Media Matters are very angry at CNN’s decision. So angry that they featured this video on their site. Thanks, guys!
Cooler heads. And honesty. Let’s be honest: Journalists often use military terminology in describing campaigns. We talk about the air war, the bombshells, targeting politicians, knocking them off, candidates returning fire or being out of ammunition. So we shouldn’t act
Chatting with Howard Kurtz on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Richard Stengel claimed that irrespective of the harm these released documents did to America’s national security, “Our job is to publish and be damned”.
CNN’s Howard Kurtz highlights the Drudge Report’s influence on American journalism.
Howard Kurtz recently interviewed former President Jimmy Carter on CNN’s Reliable Sources. Unless there is some significant portion of the interviewing missing from the video, it has to do down as one of the most glaring oversights in the history