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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
Fri May 3, 2013, 11:57 AM May 2013

Worthless Hack Kurtz leaves DailyBeast after retracted blog post

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Columnist Howard Kurtz left The Daily Beast on Thursday, the same day the website retracted one of his blog posts in which he mistakenly accused NBA player Jason Collins of hiding a previous engagement to a woman before declaring this week that he is gay.

A person close to the matter said Kurtz was fired because this was the latest in a series of high-profile errors, which detracted from the site's efforts to bolster the credibility of its news coverage. The gaffe also comes as The Daily Beast tries to succeed only online after dropping its print magazine, Newsweek, in December.

The person was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

A spokeswoman for CNN, where Kurtz hosts the TV show "Reliable Sources," said the network is reviewing the matter. Kurtz's CNN show is about "how journalists do their jobs and how the media affect the stories they cover," according to the website. Kurtz is a former media columnist with The Washington Post and was The Daily Beast's Washington bureau chief.

http://news.yahoo.com/kurtz-leaves-dailybeast-retracted-blog-post-204748611.html

Kurtz has always been one of the worst...nice to see people understand that now, even if this is the Daily Least.

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Worthless Hack Kurtz leaves DailyBeast after retracted blog post (Original Post) joeybee12 May 2013 OP
He is a lousy hack montanacowboy May 2013 #1
His wife was a prime hack for the Bushies* as well... hlthe2b May 2013 #2
+1 Blue_Tires May 2013 #4
jesus.h.christ...this moron is a fucking tool Blue_Tires May 2013 #3
And to think that he called himself an "Ombudsman" MrScorpio May 2013 #5

montanacowboy

(6,052 posts)
1. He is a lousy hack
Fri May 3, 2013, 11:59 AM
May 2013

he should have been gone from everything years ago

I remember his love fest with Idiot Son

hlthe2b

(101,701 posts)
2. His wife was a prime hack for the Bushies* as well...
Fri May 3, 2013, 12:04 PM
May 2013

This guy has always been nothing more than a paid mouthpiece for the RW.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
3. jesus.h.christ...this moron is a fucking tool
Fri May 3, 2013, 12:16 PM
May 2013
In the retracted Daily Beast post, titled "Jason Collins' Other Secret," Kurtz says Collins "didn't come clean" about the fact that he was engaged to be married to a woman before declaring he was gay.

But Collins does just that in the eighth paragraph of the Sports Illustrated piece that came out Monday.

"When I was younger I dated women. I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I needed to marry a woman and raise kids with her. I kept telling myself the sky was red, but I always knew it was blue," Collins wrote.


Says everything we ever wanted to know about the current state of journalistic quality in this country

MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
5. And to think that he called himself an "Ombudsman"
Fri May 3, 2013, 01:40 PM
May 2013
om·buds·man (mbdzmn, -bdz-, -bdz-)
n.
1. A man who investigates complaints and mediates fair settlements, especially between aggrieved parties such as consumers or students and an institution or organization.
2. A government official, especially in Scandinavian countries, who investigates citizens' complaints against the government or its functionaries.
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