Howard Kurtz of CNN "Reliable Sources" is a Biased News Critic! So why Bother?

[FrenchieCat]

Mr. Kurtz was on CNN earlier today, and he stated that he believes that although Fox might have gone a little over the line in their promotion of the Tea parties, there is a real legitimate movement out there, and that anytime American Citizens gather, it should be covered. He feels that the other media channels didn't do a very good job of making that known, and ridiculed these tea parties instead.


Mr. Kurtz is gonna be selling this shit tomorrow on his morning CNN show "Reliable Sources".
You can pre-empt his coverage by writing to him here: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?25
and here: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/howard+kurtz/


Folks should ask him why he didn't report on the US Iraq Protest when it happened.
Where was he? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-hart/the-short-happy-iraq-war_b_177402.html



On September 9, 2002, this is what he said about Iraq.....
Howard Kurtz: Lots of commentators have talked about the TIMING of the current Iraq obsession and whether, intentionally or otherwise, it might shift the campaign debate from the economy, Social Security, etc. But I don't think many people believe the administration would take the huge risk of committing American troops to topple Saddam just for some kind of short-term political benefit. This is pretty risky stuff we're talking about.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/02/regular/politics/r_politics_kurtz090902.htm

When I google Howard Kurtz, he is absent from any meaningful comments in reference to any US Iraq War Protests other than to say....."The European media, by contrast, have been very skeptical of the war, very aggressive of covering the anti-war movement," explained Kurtz, "and some people think they have a strain of anti-Americanism -- or at least anti-George Bush."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/11/Iraq.Qaeda.link/

This was a story that ran in reference to the "missing news" on Iraq War Protests in the United States:

War-protest news missing in action
Tom Plate, Tribune Media Services

Friday, January 17, 2003
On Jan. 11, tens of thousands participated in an anti-war protest in Los Angeles, and a similar turnout is expected in San Francisco on Saturday. Anti- war rallies are also to be held in Orange County, near the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, and in Washington.

The demographics of these events are telling. Showing up these days: Not just the usual kooky cadres of semi-professional protest junkies, anti- globalization crusaders and whacked-out conspiracy theorists but protesters from the solid middle class as well. It's time for Washington to start worrying.

So should the U.S. media. They have been slow to pick up on the story -- as decades ago when the establishment media was late to comprehend the dimensions of the tumult and divisiveness prompted by the Vietnam War.

In its just-out issue, CJR, the leading serious media journalism review that's published at prestigious Columbia University in New York, gives failing grades on this story to media outlets from the Washington Post and the New York Times to the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the San Diego Union-Tribune.

The missing story is that a rapidly growing number of centrist Americans oppose the Bush administration's unilateral threats against Iraq and its bizarre approach to North Korea. They also oppose its domestic law-enforcement and intelligence methods for combating terrorism.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/17/ED112058.DTL

On April 2003, Howard Kurtz wrote....
No anchor-gab was needed when it came to the powerful images produced by this short war. The American POWs cruelly displayed by the Iraqis; the dazed face of the wounded Jessica Lynch during the rescue that freed her; the sheer joy of Baghdad residents hacking away at that Saddam statue. The footage sent the world a message more compelling than a thousand op-ed pieces or a million propaganda leaflets dropped from U.S. planes.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/20-13


Peter Hart discusses Mr. Kurtz's Iraq War stance....
Friday, March 20, 2009
The Short, Happy Iraq War of Howard Kurtz
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/20-13


Here are some other "gems" From Howard Kurtz

Kurtz found "irony" in Obama's Baghdad visit because "Obama ran against the Iraq war"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200904090012?f=s_search

Howard Kurtz's enduring faith in Sean Hannity
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200904070013

Howard Kurtz plays dumb about...Howard Kurtz
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903310010

Care to try again, Howard?
Howard Kurtz: I didn't think the story was opinionated or served up RNC talking points by any means. But I do think it got out a little bit ahead of the available facts. http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903300034

Howard Kurtz thinks Sean Hannity is a newsmaker
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903230026

Matthews echoed Kurtz's baseless claim that Limbaugh's ratings have recently "doubled"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200903080013?f=s_search

Media assault on Obama's character: He "lied" and has "broken so many promises"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200903040035?f=s_search

What, exactly, did Howard Kurtz expect?
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200901220009

and it goes on and on and on.

[tularetom]

1. And he doesn't have a lot of self esteem either

After the lat and un lamented don imus referred to him as a "boner nosed, beanie wearin jewboy" he defended the asshat when CBS fired him from his morning yawnfest.

[otohara]

2. Media Whore of the Decade

can't stand him - he's one of the worst.

[Supersedeas]

14. he's in my top 5

[firedupdem]

3. He's a jerk. I sent a note. Thanks for the information. rec'd n/t

[NC_Nurse]

4. I've seen him on that crappy John King show. He's a putz.

[ErinBerin84]

5. Howard Kutz has always been a tool

He was on CNN Wednesday and claimed that MSNBC had mentioned the tea parties only "a couple times" that day. Untrue, the tea party story was in the hourly rotation the same day , plus, had been discussed seriously (and not just by the commentary shows) on MSNBC earlier in the week. Sometimes I wonder how he gathers his media information. He occasionally gets it right, but all too often, goes overboard in the opposite direction in an effort to appear "unbiased" (aka, calling Brit Humes a non-partisan reporter once. Righhhht).

[Supersedeas]

13. an apologist for Yellow Journalism

[Cha]

6. Rec'd~ Howard Kurtz is filled with hot

hypocritical gas and the amazing thing is that he doesn't implode on one of those Sunday morn so-called "reliable sources". :nuke:

Thanks for the links, Frenchie.

The teabaggers are based on vapid hysteria and howie's showing his true vapidity.

And, everyone knows what fuxn00ze catapults except those who are mired deep in the wash, rinse, repetitiveness of their brainwashing techniques.

Kurtz could have come out and given some facts on the teabaggers..instead he chose to defend the indefensible and act like a hypocritical asshole in the process.

[FrenchieCat]

7. These folks really don't know how to spell at all, hey?

[Cha]

8. Words mean nothing

to them.

[AtomicKitten]

9. He's reliably biased.

I find the smug wingnutty snark coming from John King and to a lesser degree Chuck Todd on the same level.

[Reterr]

10. His wife was Ahnuld's campaign manager

'nuff said...

I agree with you. I can't stand his smarmy ass...

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/02/edi05028.html

[grantcart]

11. On his best day when Kurtz actually gets it right - he still sounds like

a school adviser for a Junior High newspaper. He just doesn't seem very bright even at the best of times and those are pretty infrequent.

[Dr.Phool]

12. Kurtz is a turd, plain and simple.

Really simple.

[Supersedeas]

15. putting him in the News 'Critic' category is a huge stretch, more often than not Kurtz will make

excuses and apologize (defend) Media bias.

Rarely if ever will does Kurtz have the courage to directly criticize the media.