Howard Kurtz

Rightbloggers Enter "Conversation" on Jason Collins, Are Pissed No One Wants to Talk to Them

Last week NBA player Jason Collins came out as gay -- spectacularly, in the pages of Sports Illustrated. He did so not because he had been arrested in a men's room or outed by a news site, but because, as he told SI, he wanted to "start the conversation" that would make it easier for young gay athle ... More >>

Fox News Mole Joe Muto: Hero Or D-Bag?

Gawker's "mole" at Fox News, Joe Muto, was outed less than 24 hours after first publishing a few insignificant yarns from inside the cable news network's newsroom -- and now he claims on Twitter to be in the midst of a "media firestorm."The only interview he's actually given -- which he pimps on Twi ... More >>

Out-of-Work Journalists: Want to do Scientology's Dirty Work?

​We know things in the newspaper and magazine rackets are really grim right now. Every time we put up a job opening, we get hundreds of applications from folks looking for work. (Hey, and we're about to put up another one, for copy chief, so all of you copy editors out there, get your resumes ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Media Coverage Becomes the Latest Dick-Centric Weinergate Angle

​As interest in Anthony Weiner's penis and the dirty messages that brought it out to play begins to wane, we focus instead on the media coverage of Anthony Weiner, thereby proliferating Anthony Weiner coverage. Hm! It's a conundrum, especially for those who go on television to proclaim, "The d ... More >>

Howard Kurtz Is Not Too Big To Join the Kurt Bardella Pile On After Darrell Issa Snafu

​Howard Kurtz, the former Washington Post media critic and current Washington bureau chief at The Daily Beast, suffered some embarrassment earlier this year when he admitted to waiting six weeks before running a correction on a factually inaccurate article. Kurtz thought he was speaking with u ... More >>

The Huffington Post Gets Blacker, Howard Kurtz Gets Paid as Press Clips Returns

​Press Clips has long, if intermittently, been the name of the media column at the Village Voice, years ago on paper in the hands of journalists like Sydney Schanberg and Keach Hagey, before being brought to this blog by some untamed rabble-rouser called Foster Kamer. But as a wise man once wr ... More >>

Howard Kurtz Correction Is a Journalism Gift That Keeps On Giving

​Howard Kurtz is a middling, moderate media critic -- one of many of the same kind of white male eggheads -- who frequently gets singled out and faulted for being an especially unconvincing type of navel-gazing, insider asshole. That's why much of the admittedly tiny circle of media-obsessed i ... More >>

The 114 Most Important Lessons I've Learned at The Village Voice (Or: "2010, The Year I Ruined Your Media Outlet")

​After a 285-day stint, I am abdicating my post here at The Village Voice. I'm going to work for Esquire.com, so I may -- as one commenter noted -- continue my work as a "a twentysomething angel of death." Yet, while I was here, I learned some very important things, and had some very memorable mom ... More >>

Press Clips: Do Not Let Robert Thomson Behead Anyone This Week, Please

​VICTORY! for a New York City newspaper, while the rest are going down, down, in an earlier round. A new, familiar byline at New York's Vulture, and a new, familiar byline at AgencySpy. The iPad is still just The iPad, but Twitter is definitely still Twitter. Howard Kurtz at The Daily Beast is sti ... More >>

Press Clips: "10 Reasons Nick Denton is an Asshole"

​Well, since it's now hailing outside, I'm stuck inside the office until it lets up just enough for me to run from our office to the Astor Place 6 using my emergency Umbrella Mafia-umbrella without getting completely drenched. Might as well do this thing. Press Clips, Day 11, Late "Hailpocolyp ... More >>

Richard Johnson is Out at Page Six, Emily Smith to Take Over

​As pointed out by Ben Smith at Politico, Richard Johnson -- who has been working the New York Post's gossip beat for over 20 years -- just abdicated his throne for a gig in L.A.

Who Is Howard Kurtz and Why Shouldn't You Care?

​Regardless of the likely event you're like the majority of the universe and don't follow the navel-gazing meta-narrative that is media reporting, you may have come accross the fact the one of the nation's most known media columnists -- Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post -- is leaving his job ... More >>

CNN Bids Adieu to Rick Sanchez By Deleting Blog; Jon Stewart Makes a Joke

​On Friday evening, CNN briskly fired Rick's List host Rick Sanchez, after his off-color remarks about Jews went virally bonkers in less than 24 hours. "I'm telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, ... More >>

The Washington Post Still Hates and Does Not "Get" The Internet (Or Themselves)

​Washington Post reporter Mike Wise was just suspended for a month because he Tweeted out a "fake scoop" about -- ironically -- the suspension of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. The offending Tweet?

Press Clips: Certain Media Reporters Think Howard Kurtz is Full of Shit

​Day 9, Evening Edition. D.C. Drama up in this: Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz has (super) 'Reliable Sources' while The Washington Times was purchased by the Moonies for the high price of $1, and also, my Journolist-Leaker Theories are back, kinda. Elsewhere, the New York Times still ... More >>

Who Smeared Dave Weigel?

​Yesterday afternoon, The Washington Post's conservative blogger, Dave Weigel, resigned. This was following the leak of some emails detailing his personal political views to a DC hack-gossip named Betsy Rothstein and bowtied blowhard Tucker Carlson's website, The Daily Caller. The emails were ... More >>

How to Follow the White House Press Correspondents Dinner on Twitter

Time editor Richard Stengel, Gayle King and MSNBC's Savannah Guthrie​Happy May Day! Or happy White House Press Correspondents Dinner Day, depending how famous you are, how closely you follow the high school side of politics or how much you wish you were famous. Or! How much you wish you were c ... More >>

Will Gawker Media's "Journalist" Defense Hold Up After Gizmodo Writer Gets Raided by Cops?

Pictured right, Gizmodo editor Jason Chen.​New York City-based blog network Gawker Media has a tech site, Gizmodo. Recently, Gizmodo writer Jason Chen got his hands on an iPhone prototype that the company admitted to paying for. Now, California police have raided Chen's house, and they took a ... More >>

Hutaree Militia, Brick-Throwers, Victoria Jackson: Rightbloggers Find New Allies Way, Way Out on the Fringe

We hate to admit it, but the rightbloggers may be onto something when they talk about "false flag operations" against conservatives -- that is, opponents pretending to be rightwing, then acting crazy to discredit the cause. Take CNN's hiring of RedState lunatic Erick Erickson. As we all know, mains ... More >>

Eric Massa: The Final Indignities

Saturday Night Live got on the Massa thing, and even hauled in Jerry Seinfeld for the snorkeling jokes. Other late coverage has similarly devolved to the fanciful. Queerty asks "Why Does Every Cable News Chatfest About Rep. Eric Massa Have to Suck So Bad?" and notices that Bill Press, one of th ... More >>

No, seriously? Jay Leno to host White House Correspondent's Dinner

​At first blush, it looks like a pretty damn edgy move for the White House Correspondents' Association to choose Jay Leno, the current supervillain of late night, to speak at their dinner this year. They even announced it on the day of Conan's last show. You forget, this is the White House C ... More >>

Bruise Brother

Supposedly Democrat-Friendly MSNBC Has Let a Clinton-Hating Joe Maul New York's Senator

Greenwald: Howard Kurtz is a 'Right-Wing Blogger'

Imus Silenced

Jack Anderson: An Appreciation

The muckraking outsider never gave a damn about entree

All the Reporter's Men

Woodward's turn to answer questions about breaking—and not breaking—news

Morning Report 11/3/05
Cracking Another Yegg

Morning Report 10/20/05
Reporter Falls Off Scooter

Unwagging the Dog

Katrina knocks power out of Bush spin machine

Not a Pretty Picture

Looking this war in the face proves difficult when the press itself won't even put in an appearance

The Bush Tapes: Hitting the Erase Button

Sinclair's Swift Boat? Abandon Ship!

Out to Launch

Bush somehow puts Kerry on a swift boat to nowhere

Criticism w/o Critique

Why some media writers aren't allowed to opine while others get to speak their minds

Our Man in Baghdad

Smear for Smear

Enron Pits 'Times,' 'Salon' Against Freelancer

A Liberal Slant to the News?

This Book Is 'An Act of Treason'

Executive Bitch Slapping

The Widening Wage Gap Between Male and Female Managers Is a Corporate Equivalent of the Cultural Backlash

Midnight Confession

How CNN Captured John Walker

Test of the Fourth Estate

Facing Danger, Media Puts Self-Interest on Hold

Scandal Handling 101

Hillary Gets Fitted for a New Mouthpiece

Schmooze or Play Hardball?

New D.C. Gang Poses Media Dilemma

Mouth of the Border

Mexico City Gets a New Bureau Chief

Sue the Messenger, Part Two

In 2000 the Media Takes It From All Sides

The Shame of Book Publishing

A Necessary Burning of Books

Human Shields For Clinton

Interventionist Liberals Sanction a Jingoistic War

Talked Up

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