Howard Kurtz’s slanted media coverage
I have plenty of ideas for substantive posts but unfortunately little time on my hands this week. So instead I’ll point you to this scathing critique of the Washington Post’s media critic, Howard Kurtz.
Kurtz does sort of what I do here, only as a full time job and with a hell of a lot more readers. He critiques the media and specifically focuses on journalism. I’m not one of those people who obsesses over whether a journalist gives equal time to both conservatives and liberals, but Media Matters’s Eric Boehlert makes a good case that Kurtz ignores media stories that are harmful to conservatives while pumping up any minor media scandal reported by the conservative blogosphere.
I guess I should issue the caveat that I have read Kurtz’s book Spin Cycle and enjoyed it tremendously. Part of me wonders if this is his misguided attempt to battle the liberal-bias stereotype by giving undue weight to conservative bloggers (EDITORIALIZING: who are some of the worst fact-checkers on the internet). Either way, his credibility is certainly declining.
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