Yesterday Howard Kurtz criticized Lou Dobbs for the entire birther thing. The amazing part is that this came on the same network as Dobbs:
I got to give CNN kudos above MSNBC for this. They were able to air both sides, including public criticizing. I wonder if MSNBC will ever follow suit?
Kurtz is definitely not part of the "liberal media", yet he isn't buying the crap that Ifill will be biased towards Biden/Obama tomorrow night:
Well after 9 hours of shuffling files and backing up/restoring databases, I finally get some time to blog again. Wow what a bad day to do this. I missed it all. Domenech decided to resign from the Washington Post and I just got done reading Howard Kurtz's article regarding the entire ordeal and what can I say but DAYUM.
Let's go through some of this master piece article by Mr. Kurtz:
A 24-year-old conservative blogger hired by The Washington Post Co.'s Web site resigned yesterday, three days after his debut, amid a flurry of allegations of plagiarism.
Yeah yeah, we have established that fact. The only problem is there is valid proof out there that he did plagiarize article. I guess terming it as "alleged" is a nice protection for the Washington Post from their gross oversight in background checks of new employees.
Howard Kurtz has an interesting column in the
Washington Post today where he has examined the response of the blogosphere
to Judith Miller's story.
While questions are being asked around the internet about her security
clearance that she received from the Department of Defense (see this article at
Poynter Online by
former CBS correspondent Bill Lynch), there is also mounting questions
being raised over her true integrity has a journalist. One part of Kurtz's
column raises that question even more where he talks about a former contract
writer for the New York Times, Craig Pyes, who worked with Miller on a story
about Al Qaeda in 2000. Pyes was so disgruntled with the work of Miller that he
actually wrote the editors and asked his name not appear on the byline.
"I'm not willing to work further on this project with Judy Miller," wrote
Pyes, who now writes for the Los Angeles Times. He added: "I do not trust
her work, her judgment, or her conduct. She is an advocate, and her actions
threaten the integrity of the enterprise, and of everyone who works with her
. . . She has turned in a draft of a story of a collective enterprise that
is little more than dictation from government sources over several days,
filled with unproven assertions and factual inaccuracies," and "tried to
stampede it into the paper."
Full story
here
Bill it has been a couple years since your lawsuit over a picture of you on
the cover of Al Franken’s book – Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them was
laughed out of court. Out of everything that was said about you in the book, you
conceited to them and only drew attention to a picture of you on the cover..
Bill O’Reilly has become probably one of the biggest jokes in today’s news
media. He claims to have a fair and balanced look but as anyone who watches his
show would know; if someone starts to disagree with Bill he cuts them off.
In his latest attempt to foil his arch nemesis Al Franken, this past Thursday
Bill saw a chance to poke fun at Al and even take some hits at the New York
Times in the process
Time now for the most ridiculous item of the day. Our pal Stuart Smalley
apparently had a meltdown at a radio function in New York City over the weekend.
Smalley had to be scolded by the event's host and at one point actually broke
down in tears. Now, this is not our concern except to tell you that the
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz was at the event, witnessed the
meltdown and did not mention it in his article today. Failing to report things
of this nature is, of course, and example of BIAS! Well, we called Mr. Kurtz who
denied any bias. You make the call. One other thing. I've gotten a lot of
e-mails from people who asked me why I don't reply to smear merchants like
Smalley and the reason is most of these people are very troubled individuals who
are simply seeking publicity in the worst possible way. It would be ridiculous
to engage those people.
Since you decided to point out what you thought wasn’t reported Bill, let me
go ahead and point a couple of them out for you:
