Howie Kurtz

CNN's Don Lemon Thinks the Criticism of Jackson Coverage is "Elitist" - Posted July 6, 2009
On Reliable Sources Sunday Howie Kurtz asked CNN anchor Don Lemon whether the networks are "overdoing" the coverage of the death of Michael Jackson. "No," said Lemon. Then he called the criticism "elitist." ... [TVNewser]

Taking Out The Trash - Posted April 15, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cMoment of Zen - First Dog Punsthedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesEconomic CrisisPolitical Humor What we almost missed today... • The press has been panting after President Obama's new puppy and hence a "Moment of Zen" for Daily Show's Jon Stewart. WaPo's Howard Kurtz makes... [FishBowlDC]

Taking Out The Trash - Posted April 15, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cMoment of Zen - First Dog Punsthedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesEconomic CrisisPolitical Humor What we almost missed today... • The press has been panting after President Obama's new puppy and hence a "Moment of Zen" for Daily Show's Jon Stewart. WaPo's Howard Kurtz makes... [FishBowlDC]

Kurtz on Off-the-Record Discussions and Network Interviews with the President - Posted March 24, 2009
A few interesting items in Howie Kurtz's online WaPo chat yesterday, Critiquing the Press: Washington, D.C.: When Walter Pincus revealed off-record discussions between Josh Block and three reporters, did he rat out any of his Post colleagues? Intelligence Pick Blames 'Israel Lobby' For Withdrawal (Post, March 12) If one reporter at the... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List 03.23.09 - Posted March 23, 2009
From the Silicon Valley Insider Good Morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line. Its day 63 covering the Obama administration and week eight for us. Congrats to Politico's Patrick O'Connor who got engaged Saturday to... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List 03.02.09 - Posted March 2, 2009
Good Morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. Its day 42 covering the Obama administration and one month down for us. What we know and... [FishBowlDC]

Let's Talk More About Paid Content! - Posted February 19, 2009
The paid content conversation rages on. One suspects that at some point before the end of this year the financial situation of newspapers may be so dire that readers will be faced with the choice of paying for content or relying on TMZ.com for their news. Until that fateful... [FishBowlNY]

Barack Obama Drinking Coffee With Everyone but The New York Times - Posted January 16, 2009
Does Barack Obama have something against the New York Times? We talked about this a bit on the media menu this morning but it's beginning to seem like Obama is planning on visiting every newspaper but the Times. Yesterday he hit both the USA Today and Washington Post newsrooms... [FishBowlNY]

Ashley Dupre Makes the Media Rounds - Posted November 22, 2008
"I turned on the TV and I said, 'Oh shit, what did I get myself involved in?'" — Ashley Dupre Tomorrow on Reliable Sources TVNewser's Gail Shister talks with Howie Kurtz about the Ashley Dupre / Diane Sawyer interview. That's tomorrow at 10amET on CNN. We'll have the ratings for last night's... [TVNewser]

Does Rupert Murdoch Have an Obama-Shaped Hole in his Heart? - Posted November 17, 2008
Today's New York Times is speculating whether Rupert Murdoch has a soft spot for Barack Obama. Anyone who keeps up with the New York Post can't help but be aware that the Senator and now President-elect has rarely been subject to the infamous (and endlessly entertaining) lacerations of the Post's... [FishBowlNY]

Judith Miller to Join Fox News - Posted October 20, 2008
So what do you do if you're a disgraced former investigative reporter for the national paper of record, who, in your own words, became a "lightning rod for public fury over the intelligence failures that helped lead our country to war?" You go work for Fox News of course! ... [FishBowlNY]

FBNY at Day Two of the Time Politics Summit 2008 - Posted October 14, 2008
FBNY is back uptown at the Time Warner Center attending day two of the Time Political Summit 2008. So far today we've listened to Dan Rather talk about his upcoming court case, and Howie Kurtz discuss lipstick on a pig. TVNewser is also here. Tune into our twitter... [FishBowlNY]

On The Way to a Subdued RNC - Posted August 31, 2008
We are now in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul, or if you're Bob Schieffer, St. Paul/Minneapolis (he joked about it this morning on Face the Nation). Anyway, we kept up to date on Hurricane Gustav and on the RNC during and in between flights. On the Delta flight to Atlanta, CNN... [TVNewser]

The MSM Finally Meets the John Edwards Love Child - Posted August 11, 2008
Let the rationalizing begin! After the John Edwards story officially broke last Friday — running almost non-stop on every cable channel — many news organizations are now in the process of trying to explain why it took them so long to take up a story initially reported by the National... [FishBowlNY]

Carr and Kurtz: A Media Throwdown? - Posted July 23, 2008
Is there a feud brewing between WaPo's Howie Kurtz and the NYT's David Carr? The Star Tribune seems to think so. Whilst interview Carr on his upcoming memoir Night of the Gun — in which Carr (amazingly) details his past as a both a drug addict and dealer, among... [FishBowlNY]

Howie Kurtz Didn't Stay At A Holiday Inn Express Last Night - Posted March 30, 2008
A notably testy Howie Kurtz pressed Politico's John Harris, Washington Post's Anne Kornblut and National Journal's Linda Douglass on today's "Reliable Sources": Kurtz to Harris: "Why would journalists, who love predicting how these things are going to turn out, perpetuate a fantasy? ... "But John Harris, if the race is such make-believe, which... [FishBowlDC]

McCain/NYT: The Day After - Posted February 22, 2008
Once more into the breach... Jay Rosen: "For the New York Times, as Well, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Risks" Adam Reilly: "NYT McCain story nixed by Globe--corrected!" Ari Melber: "Defending McCain from adultery, corruption and the Times." Will Bunch: "The New York Times grooves one over the middle of the plate for McCain, GOP" Brian Montopoli:... [FishBowlDC]

New Hampshire, The Candidates and the Press - Posted January 8, 2008
Some interesting pieces out today about press coverage in New Hampshire: Slate calls C-SPAN "the best campaign coverage on TV." Some thoughts on the media's love for John McCain (via Romenesko). And Howie Kurtz looks at journo love for Obama and says "Bad Press? Giuliani Gets It Good." Guardian's Suzanne Goldenberg gets an inside look... [FishBowlDC]

Dowd Jumps To ABC - Posted December 7, 2007
From Howie Kurtz: Matthew Dowd started out as a Democratic operative, then helped engineer George W. Bush's winning White House campaigns before growing disenchanted and publicly breaking with the president. Now he's reinventing himself once again. ABC News will announce today that Dowd has been tapped as an on-air contributor and blogger, the... [FishBowlDC]

The Courage To Confront Clinton? - Posted November 30, 2007
Today, Howie Kurtz touches on a story touched on by TNR's Michael Crowley three weeks ago: That not all reporters are in love with the Clinton campaign's press access. We're more interested in this, however: The reporters willing to go on the record with their complaints, risking future relations with the powerful... [FishBowlDC]

Page: "It's the stupidest thing I've done in 30 years in journalism." - Posted November 13, 2007
(earlier) From Howie Kurtz: Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. called Page's e-mail "a terrible mistake" and said he has taken "appropriate internal action," but neither he nor Page would disclose it. Page plans to take a previously scheduled four-month leave starting Jan. 1. Read the rest here.... [FishBowlDC]

Kurtz Is Trying A Little Bit Too Hard To Be Like Stephen Colbert - Posted October 15, 2007
You probably already are aware of "The Colbert Report"'s "Formidable Opponent" segment, when Stephen Colbert debates, well, Stephen Colbert. Or you saw Colbert's interview last week with, well, himself: And now this? Howie Kurtz interviewing Howie Kurtz on CNN's "Reliable Sources" yesterday: ... [FishBowlDC]

When A Kurtz Scoop Isn't A Kurtz Scoop - Posted October 10, 2007
Howie Kurtz got lots of press (read: Drudge) for a snippet in his new book detailing how Dan Rather intended to give a document to the NYTimes if CBS did not run his National Guard story. Problem? New York Press editor David Blum's book had that two years ago, according to Gawker. Kurtz... [FishBowlDC]

A Linda Greenhouse Update - Posted August 13, 2007
(earlier on FishbowlDC) Says Jack Shafer: Far from being C-SPAN averse, Greenhouse has appeared on the channel so many times you could launch C-SPAN 4 tomorrow and fill it with Greenhouse reruns. According to C-SPAN Vice President Terence Murphy, Greenhouse has appeared at 51 different events covered by the channel. (Green-SPAN, anyone?) But she's... [FishBowlDC]

Sun Valley Media Mogul Report - Posted July 13, 2007
Ron Mwangaguhunga reports: It's July, so that means that the chattering class big guns are out and about in Sun Valley, Idaho, at investment banker Herb Allen's mogul retreat for a little "deep think" interspersed with rounds of golf. There is always, lurking in the green, the possible dramatic tension of the... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Reading List, 07.09.07 - Posted July 9, 2007
Good morning Washington. An NBC release announced that "Meet the Press with Tim Russert" "posted an impressive ratings win, outperforming the Sunday morning public affairs competition in all categories during the second quarter of 2007." Nick Kulish will be reading from his new novel, "Last One In," tonight at Olsson's Courthouse... [FishBowlDC]

Howie Gets More Friends - Posted June 18, 2007
Howie Kurtz gives us an update on how his Facebook page is going (slow news day, maybe?) and notes that there's event a Facebook group entitled, "Unlike Daughter, Howard Kurtz's Mother Probably Thinks He's Cool; So Do I." ... [FishBowlDC]

Be My Friend Howie - Posted June 6, 2007
At first, Howie Kurtz was itching to get friends on Facebook. Now, he's upsetting some folks because he's not accepting friends. The Hill's Arthur Delaney tells us that "Kurtz refuses to confirm facebook friendship" with him and this blogger also seems upset at the rejection.... [FishBowlDC]

Russert, Shrum, Murphy and Polling Data - Posted June 4, 2007
From page 324 of Bob Shrum's latest book, "No Excuses": "Tim Russert called me with more bad news: the second wave of exit polls was holding for Bradley. We were going to lose. What were we going to do? I could hear the excitment in his voice -- not because he... [FishBowlDC]

Email Interviews: So Hot Right Now - Posted May 21, 2007
Howie Kurtz looks into the latest trend in journalism: Doing interviews by email (and email only). But in the digital age, some executives and commentators are saying they will respond only by e-mail, which allows them to post the entire exchange if they feel they have been misrepresented, truncated or otherwise... [FishBowlDC]

Posties On VT Coverage - Posted April 23, 2007
From Deb Howell... From Howie Kurtz... And Postie Leonard Shapiro is proud of his son's VT coverage...... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 04.02.07 - Posted April 2, 2007
Good morning Washington. The amount of money you would actually pay for a Gridiron Dinner ticket is $0. Ouch. We're going to start working for Lockhart Steele. Who's stealing CDs from Voice of America's library?!? A history of radio April Fools Day pranks. Washingtonians toast the engagement of Anne Schroeder and Luke Mullins. "XM-Sirius Debate Comes Down... [FishBowlDC]

Say Hello To Dana Perino - Posted March 29, 2007
Howie Kurtz looks at the deputy press secretary in today's Post.... [FishBowlDC]

The Post on Post.com Goof - Posted March 23, 2007
>UPDATE: Another question: Will others such as Reuters, MSNBC and others also have to issue corrections? And is the Politico getting an unfair thumping for doing the same thing other outlets did? HuffPo's Rachel Sklar says: Update: More self-flagellation from Ben. Ben! It's okay! Let's not forget how freaking long it takes... [FishBowlDC]

Little Stolberg "Works" For Post - Posted March 19, 2007
From Howie Kurtz: Cross-Promotion Her face peers out from Metrobuses around town, the young star of a promotional campaign for Washington Post Radio. Now it can be told: She's the 12-year-old daughter of a New York Times reporter. "It's very cool," says Timeswoman Sheryl Gay Stolberg, though she did stop to wonder about aiding the... [FishBowlDC]

Yawn... - Posted March 14, 2007
Man, these examples of "If it hasn't appeared in my Washington Post, then it hasn't ever been reported before" just keep piling up: Howie Kurtz finally gets around to discovering TMZDC.com's entry into Washington. ... [FishBowlDC]

Kurtz On Grim - Posted February 12, 2007
Howie Kurtz also writes up last week's story re: Ryan Grim and the Politico's disclosure. Says Tom Riley, from the White House drug policy office: "The idea of someone who had been an activist on this now being a staff writer purporting to write about it objectively . . . is ludicrous,"... [FishBowlDC]

More On Arkin - Posted February 12, 2007
(who is back blogging, by the way) Howie Kurtz reports on Washington Post blogger William Arkin's interesting few weeks, which began with this quote: ...an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary -- oops sorry, volunteer -- force that thinks it is doing the dirty work. Arkin has apologized for using... [FishBowlDC]

Meet, Face, Politico - Posted February 9, 2007
So the Politico had an ad from "Meet the Press" in the first issue, despite having established a pretty tight relationship with "Face the Nation." Now, the Politico's Roger Simon will be the first Politico'r to go on MTP this weekend. Is "Face" pissed? Or is MTP so dominant that guests (and... [FishBowlDC]

"Tim Russert, on The Uncomfortable Side of a Question" - Posted February 8, 2007
Howie Kurtz writes about Tim Russert's testimony yesterday. From the moment he hobbled into the wood-paneled courtroom on a single crutch from an ankle injury, Tim Russert seemed very different from the familiar television figure of Sunday morning combat. He was careful, sober and subdued. He spoke in a flat monotone. He offered... [FishBowlDC]