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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.
montanacowboy
(6,052 posts)he should have been gone from everything years ago
I remember his love fest with Idiot Son
hlthe2b
(101,701 posts)This guy has always been nothing more than a paid mouthpiece for the RW.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)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
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