"You're going to have to cover someone who pays you," Downie explained. "Howie has demonstrated in the way that he covers this newspaper that he has no conflict covering an employer.
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By that rationale, why not let every major media company pay Kurtz? He is far too pure to be influenced by his own sizable payoffs ... er, paychecks.

And Kurtz is a lousy right-wing water carrier in both roles. He should be fired twice.

Kurtz came to the rescue of the Morning, Joe show very

early on.

Duh! Huh?

Viewers wrote to MSNBC asking why we had to listen

to Joe's boring chatter and Mica's laughter for 10 minutes

before the day's news was reported. This continued for

several weeks. The show is on MSNBC so we really

were not surprised, just disappointed, by the lack of order in their program.

However the great surprise came

when HOWARD STEPPED FORWARD TO COMPLIMENT

THE SHOW AS TERRIFIC. HE WAS A GUEST ON

MORNING, JOE TWO DAYS LATER. applause...........

Kurtz is to media critic as Fox is to fair and balanced.

Really, it should be an SAT question.

Great photo. Looks like the two finalists in a Jamie Farr lookalike contest.

it's nice to see kurtz's smug, self congratulatory farce exposed. he admires chris matthews so much because they're cut from the same mold.

obnoxious and corrupt.

Kurtz is okay w/ me actually.

An op-ed about an opinion editor specialized in op-eds ...

Beautiful example of self absorbed media.

WOW. Great profile. Well researched, well written. As a very occasional viewer of Kurtz, I had no idea. I appreciated the subject of his CNN show - media - and I thought he was a bit of a lightweight, but otherwise enjoyed his show enough. Who needs him?
Send him to Fox News.

I'll just make it short and sweet : either you are with Kurtz or you are not. One might debate it, but Kurtz criticizes himself. Enough said.