Howard Kurtz’s contract with CNN under review

[DonViejo]

Sources say it's unlikely his contract will be renewed

BY PRACHI GUPTA

CNN is reviewing “Reliable Sources” host Howard Kurtz’s contract. The news, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter by a spokesperson for the network, follows Tina Brown’s announcement two days ago that the media reporter and The Daily Beast had parted ways.

Sources also told the Hollywood Reporter that CNN is not likely to renew Kurtz’s contract. “The network is also looking into Kurtz’s involvement with the web site The Daily Download after media organizations raised the specter of a conflict of interest between Kurtz’s day job and his freelance role at the site that was launched in February 2012,” writes THR.

Kurtz has wrongly accused NBA star Jason Collins, who made sports history for coming out as gay in Sports Illustrated this week, of not disclosing the fact that Collins was once engaged. (Collins stated that he was engaged early in the piece). The Daily Beast has since pulled the column and fired Kurtz, who has made serious reporting errors before, including a column in which he misquoted Rep. Darrell Issa’s spokesman as Rep. Darrell Issa.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/05/03/howard_kurtzs_contract_with_cnn_under_review/

Howard Kurtz Out At The Daily Beast

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014472576

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. He's a hack and an apologist for lazy media. Good riddance.

[Blue_Tires]

7. +1000

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. Isn't Kurtz the one that Keith Olbermann kicked off his show, and swore never to have him back?

I forget what the dustup was about, but apparently Kurtz said or wrote something unforgiveable as far as KO was concerned.

[blogslut]

3. Perhaps, but I think you might be thinking of Dana Milbank

Milbank had been making regular appearances on Countdown but then wrote something wrong about candidate Obama and went off to work for CNN.

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. I didn't know Dana went to CNN. He's a fixture at MSNBC, especially Rev. Al & Martin Bashir.

Dana Milbank


Howard Kurtz


Howard Fineman

I used to get the latter two mixed up.

[blogslut]

5. Milbank came back to MSNBC

Just not to Countdown.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. OIC. Thanks.

[UTUSN]

8. Well, well, well: Et tu, CNN?!1 Perhaps it's a sinking-under-his-own-weight thing

Years of his sniping from a pedestal at everybody else down below, yet with a totally hypocritical formula: First the premise/set-up of criticizing how "the media" whored after the latest new thing, then passing without irony into discussing the topic itself (not the media), that is, doing the same thing he was criticizing. And oh how he craved attention from COLBERT and STEWART and whoever he sensed is kewl when he's not, begging for them to feature him.