CNN is reviewing “Reliable Sources” host Howard Kurtz’s contract. The news, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter by a spokesperson for the network, follows Tina Brown’s announcement that the media reporter was let go from The Daily Beast two days ago.Sources also told the Hollywood Reporter that CNN is not likely to renew Kurtz’s contract. “The network is also looking into Kurtz’s involvement with the web site The Daily Download after media organizations raised the specter of a conflict of interest between Kurtz’s day job and his freelance role at the site that was launched in February 2012,” writes THR.Kurtz was fired from the Daily Beast after wrongly accusing NBA star Jason Collins, who made sports history for coming out as gay in Sports Illustrated this week, for not disclosing the fact that Collins was once engaged. (Collins stated that he was engaged early in the piece). The Daily Beast has since pulled the column and fired Kurtz, who has made serious reporting errors before, including a column in which he misquoted Rep. Darrell Issa’s spokesman as Rep. Darrell Issa.Continue Reading… … Read More
Noise and Nonsense on Benghazi Attack
Over the past few weeks of the presidential campaign we've been hearing a lot–maybe too much–about the September 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. It's been turned into a campaign issue by the Romney team, which has used the incident to charges that the Obama administration is unable to manage foreign affairs and so forth. The intensity of the Republican pushback has made this into a major story. It was the lead issue in the vice presidential debate, and has been a regular subject on the Sunday [...] … Read More
