Howard Kurtz
Howard Kurtz
Howard "Howie" Alan Kurtzis an American journalist and author with a special focus on the media. He is the host of Fox News Channel's Media Buzz program, and the successor to Fox News Watch. He is the former media writer for The Washington Post and the former Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast. He has written five books about the media. Kurtz left CNN and joined Fox News Channel on July 1, 2013...
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth1 August 1953
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These conventions are staged for television, but it's not very good television, and most people are watching more interesting programs. I think a lot of people are going to form their impressions on how the party did by front-page headlines, by the pictures on the front page, by some of the analysis. By what's in the paper.
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But if this is the tip of the iceberg, in other words, if there are more moments in debates or other interviews, where he seems not to have a grasp, sure, that could be a major problem, ... But that will depend on whether this sort of thing ... resonates with voters. It may not, this may be a media flap, it may be a one-day story.
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But I don't know how much sympathy there is out there for newspapers when there are companies laying off 10,000 people a pop.
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Even by the standards of modern media excess, there has never been anything quite like the way the press is embracing, extolling and flat-out promoting this retired general who has never sought public office.
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It's kind of like letting people inside the newsroom. They can see the raw process. They can see the judgments that different networks make -- some being cautious, some being not so cautious, and they can make up their own minds about who's right, who's wrong and what remains to be seen.
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There are some Trump detractors who feel like it's the media's job to stop Trump.
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How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that journalists are not accustomed to covering a candidate who moves crowds the way Obama does, who uses speech cadences and rhythm like Martin Luther King Jr. without making his talk explicitly about race. Sen. Clinton already owned the policy-wonk slot, so by default, Obama was cast as the poetic one.
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In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds.
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The dismissive notion that conservatives leak to outlets on the right for ideological reasons ignores the fact that liberals often do the same thing with news organizations that are either left-of-center or likely to be sympathetic to the message being peddled.
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Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.
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It's a brave new world.