Washington Post media critic won't write about Lou Dobbs (they both work for CNN)

[berniebern]

Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, who is supposed to criticize everyone alike, has not criticized Lou Dobbs for suggesting that our President is not a citizen of the United States.

Jamison Foser reported yesterday on the conflict of interest:

"In his Washington Post "Media Notes" column today, Howard Kurtz continues to duck the growing controversy swirling around his CNN colleague, Lou Dobbs.

While Kurtz couldn't bring himself to criticize Dobbs, he did devote a section to the ever-pressing topic of Michael Jackson. And a lengthy section to the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, in which he asserted that President Obama's answer to a question about Gates was "a tactical mistake." An odd focus for a "Media Notes" column, but it does have benefit of allowing Kurtz to fill column inches without criticizing CNN, which signs his (other) paycheck."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200907240010

[Berry Cool]

1. That figures.

Howie Kurtz has always been a rightie pretending to pose as an impartial journalist. He's just the kind of slimy weasel who would say "Is Obama a US citizen? I dunno. Not saying he is, not saying he isn't. I'm not taking sides in that controversy."

Slimeball.

[ellie]

2. Well then Howie

needs to lose his job, along with Lou Dobbs. This is the news business, not a frat club where everyone watches each other's back. What a bunch of worthless scumbags.

[spanone]

3. that means howie is useless as a 'media critic'. which we already knew

[dgibby]

4. Gawd, I LOVE mediamatters.org!

They are the BEST at uncovering all this corruption.

[otohara]

5. Unlike MSNBC, Which Let Rachel Maddow

call out and further expose their resident racist, Obama hater Pat Buchanan.

Too bad his sudden disappearance from MSNBC isn't permanent.

[Captain Hilts]

6. And Kurtz is married to someone who raised $$ for the RNC & was part of GWB's transition team in '00