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*Howard Kurtz began his weekly Sunday media show on CNN by apologizing to Jason Collins for his “sloppy and inexcusable” Daily Beast story that suggested the NBA player wasn’t telling the whole truth when he came out as gay in a Sports Illustrated cover. “The mistake I made was sloppy and inexcusable,” Kurtz said, according [...]
*The Daily Beast has fired columnist Howard Kurtz after he made a colossal boo-boo in his story about NBA player Jason Collins’ coming out, the website announced on Thursday. Earlier this week, the 34-year-old Washington Wizards center wrote an essay for Sports Illustrated in which became the first openly gay active NBA player. In response, [...]
*Former “Today” co-host Bryant Gumbel is not holding his tongue over the show’s decision to bring in Sarah Palin as a co-host last week. Gumbel, who led the show for fifteen years and returned to “Today” for its sixtieth anniversary reunion show, told CNN’s Howard Kurtz that he was “embarrassed” by the move. NBC brought [...]
*CNN’s media watchdog Howard Kurtz questioned what he described as Al Sharpton’s conflicting roles in covering the story of Trayvon Martin’s killing, reports the Huffington Post. Sharpton, one of the most outspoken activists in the Martin case, has devoted entire hour of his MSNBC show “PoliticsNation” to coverage of the shooting and interviews with Martin’s [...]
*The controversy surrounding Rev Al Sharpton possibly being hired by MSNBC over an actual journalist of color, to anchor the networks 6pm nightly newscast, continues. On his Sunday morning CNN program, “Reliable Source,” host Howard Kurtz spoke with the St. Petersburg Times media critic Eric Deggans to get his thoughts on the subject. Kurtz and [...]
*The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz has done a very interesting piece on former ABC-TV anchor Carole Simpson, whose new memoir – “News Lady” – chronicles a career marred by racist and sexist attacks. Kurtz writes that Simpson was a rookie radio reporter in 1966 when she conducted an all-night stakeout of visiting civil-rights leader Martin [...]
*According to the Washington Post’s media watcher Howard Kurtz, about 200 advertisers are boycotting Glenn Beck’s program on Fox News, with Apple abandoning the cable network altogether. Kurtz writes: More than 200 companies have joined a boycott of Beck’s program, making it difficult for Fox to sell ads. The time has instead been sold to [...]
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