Breaking at MWO: Howard Kurtz (WP) caught in ethics probe

[Newsjock]

http://mediawhoresonline.com/

MWO has learned from highly informed Washington sources that Howard 'Mistah' Kurtz faces numerous dangerous charges of conflict-of-interest and influence peddling in his media column at the Washington Post...The charges stem from documented instances of Kurtz's involvement in what appears to be insider trading of information aimed at enriching his wife, GOP right-wing media consultant Sheri Annis..."No one has used the word 'fired' yet," one source close to the investigation told MWO, "but Kurtz better be watching his back."...

Developing...

[yellowcanine]

1. Howie isn't ethical? I am shocked.

Shocked, I tell you.

[barbaraann]

2. Gosh, I'm shocked too!

Who would have ever thought??!!?? hahaha

[TheDebbieDee]

12. What about awed?

Are you awed, too?

(read this reply earlier today on another thread - cracked me up :^)

[proud patriot]

3. SWEET

:evilgrin:

[La_Serpiente]

4. Susan Estrich now writes for NewsMax

why am I not suprised?

[KoKo]

10. That 's a surprise to me. What happened to her? Or, was she an Operative

all along. "Beware the Moles" in the campaign, should be the new buzzword. I'm convinced Stephanopolis was a plant in Clinton's campaign.

[calimary]

19. What a turncoat!

She used to be a voice for liberal thought. SHEESH! Must be the Pox News effect. Totally polluted her. That's what happens when you swim in the cess pool.

[StlMo]

5. Howie the Whorie should be fired.

Yet, we can not expect his employers to take action against any Republican.

The Washington Post sold out to right wing interests long ago.

[StlMo]

7. Of course, the Post could do the right thing.

*Not holding my breath*

[papau]

13. So what slot on Fox will be given him - Joe murdered mistress and got

an hour on Fox cable news.

This is a small crime compared to Scarburough, so he may just become a consultant.

[StlMo]

15. Fox "News" - All Evil, All the Time

nt

[Tuttle]

25. I thought Joe was MSNBC

He's the one with the dead intern, a messy divorce and a burning desire to spend more time with his family?

That Joe Scar-z-borough?

Tut-tut

[papau]

28. OK - another Senior moment - Yes - MSNBC rather than Fox

and CNBC has the Miller show that is non-partisan except he says he likes Bush and the GOP so he will not take them on!

We are left with Aaron! - CNN!

[UpInArms]

16. I received a "free" copy

of their weekly political review in my snail mailbox today -

was just absolutely full of rightwing trash and it hit the circular bin within minutes.

:puke:

[kskiska]

6. Why am I not surprised?

This guy is shifty.

[PatGund]

8. Doubt anything would happen

Kurtz is too popular with the RW crowd, and the Washington Post could care less about how biased they look

[KoKo]

11. Well......we could start an e-mail campaign to WaPo's Omsbudman.....

:shrug: but, agree that they probably wouldn't listen. I just sent a complaint to him in December of a David Broder column and didn't even get an answer.

[calimary]

22. Even so, it is WELL WORTH IT to write the ombudsman.

People do eventually respond to lots of squeaky wheels. They have to. Especially if they get enough of 'em. Besides, management looks over the shoulders of these people.

on edit -

BETTER STILL:

When you email him, CC it to the editor, and the publisher. That way they'll all know that OTHER eyes are seeing this, too. Gives 'em less plausible deniability.

[KoKo]

9. Howies Wife (Sherri Annis) trashed Dean. Check out this Clip!

*Plus, with the Iowa caucuses less than a week away, is Democratic Presidential Candidate Howard Dean's political campaign starting to loose its footing? Democratic political strategist Mary Anne Marsh and Republican media consultant Sherri Annis weigh in.

My after-the-fact predictions: Sherri Annis said that Dean's campaign in unraveling because Dean seems so angry all the time, and that turns off voters, who don't want a Mr. Grumpy for their President. Dean also seems all crazy and stuff. Bill chimed in with a reference to Dean abandoning his church for a bike path, and believing that President Bush, the Masons, and the reptilian space aliens were behind 9/11. Mary Anne didn't get a chance to say much.

http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/2004/01/14.html

[Rebellious Republican]

21. Hey KoKo01, I think you mispelled Sherri's last wrong.........

I believe it should be spelled ANUS!

I know, my bad! :evilgrin:

[KoKo]

29. ROFL! You make a good point there! n/t

[OilemFirchen]

14. Always suspected his books were autobiographical

How best to sum of Howie the Whore?

"Spin Cycle"
"Hot Air: All Talk, All the Time"
"Media Circus"
"The Fortune Tellers"
"Reinventing the Newspaper"

Couldn't have said it better had I said it myself.

[freethought23]

17. This explains Howard's kiss-up book on Wall Street, misleadingly called

*The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street's Game of Money, Media and Manipulation.*

It was like a compilation of fan mag articles on all the nice people who run brokerages and hedge firms and all the nice, clever things they do to make money for their customers! LOL!

These were his partners in crime!

[KoKo]

30. So glad you caught this about his book at the height of the "Bubble."

What a Whore Howie is....He was being fed info for years all the while getting jobs as a "so-called" Media Critic in WaPo and on CNN!

He's a disgusting piece of work. His fellow journalists should trash him....but "oh My!" they are all on the "dole" too. So who is left who can consider themselves "untainted."

Payola! Pay for info. And, they "pass for journalists." :puke:

[calimary]

18. Conflict of Interest? Hmmmmm. Seems like his entire schtick is

a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest in being OBJECTIVE!!!!!

Wouldn't it be neat if, one by one, the worst of the whores gets taken out of the game?

[kaitykaity]

20. Finally, a media whore gets what he deserves.

Yeeeaaaaarrrrggghhhhhh!!!!!!

Howie probably thought he could do whatever he wanted,
whenever he wanted. That's how his heroes the Bushies
operate, isn't it?

[Ripley]

23. Does this guy have a show on CNN?

Is that the same guy who does a show that does navel-gazing about the media on the weekend? Gee, another Novak...how many unethical people does CNN really employ?

[0007]

27. Who is ethical at CNN? After all it's the White House hot line

Probably was one of the six person that the White House leaked the Plame story too!

[Cooley Hurd]

32. It's called "Reliable Sources" and it's on Sunday morning...

Conservative hack, thy name is irony...

[worldgonekrazy]

35. Yeah just like Robert "I'm a fucking traitor" Novak

CNN has no shame. None at all. I used to think they were better than FOX News but I have recently come to the conclusion that they are just better at hiding their extreme bias (though still not good at it, of course).

[jpgray]

24. This asshole should be fired

As one who has read his column, let me tell you I'm not at all surprised.

[indepat]

26. Does time really heal all wounds and wound all heels?

[frank frankly]

31. Howie you corrupt bastard, you're going down

his wife working for Arnie was a problem, no?

please let one of the media whores go down!

[Aries]

33. Update

http://www.mediawhoresonline.com

An MWO World Exclusive

KURTZ PROBE WIDENS AMID NEW CHARGES
'Flagrant' Abuses Cited
Mistah K's Silence Deepens Suspicions
CNN Tapes, Invite Lists Under Scrutiny

The probe into Howard "Mistah" Kurtz’s ethics violations has deepened, highly informed sources have told MWO.

As reported earlier on MWO, Kurtz faced charges that he used his Washington Post column to promote the financial interests of his wife, the right-wing Republican media consultant Sherri Annis.

Investigators initially focused on a column of Kurtz’s, from last Friday, January 23, in which Kurtz promoted a right-wing oppo magazine and web site where Annis also appeared ten days earlier.

Investigators observed that Annis's article may serve to solicit interest and patronage for Fourth Estate Strategies, an inside-the-Beltway "media and communications" operation of which Annis is president:

With Arnold Schwarzenegger, on the other hand, we had hundreds of journalists panting for an interview during his 2002 afterschool-initiative campaign. We picked our outlets carefully, but even when we granted several interviews in one day, we had a movie-trained spokesman who knew how to stay on message. We also had millions of dollars for commercials, which is very helpful in a market the size of California. Even though we flew around the state doing media appearances, Schwarzenegger wouldn't hang out with reporters for stream-of-consciousness color pieces. It was a disciplined approach that foreshadowed the carefully controlled access of his winning gubernatorial campaign.

Should her January 13 piece heighten interest in Annis's PR group, Kurtz stands to profit personally and directly from his January 23 column promoting the publication in which it appears.

Now, sources close to the investigation tell MWO, the net has been cast wider, to include allegations of systematic abuse of journalistic ethics by the embattled media columnist.

[worldgonekrazy]

34. That slimy bastard deserves whatever he's got coming

Wow. I am quite full of hate today. Maybe it was the fact that the first two threads I read at DU were:

1) Dr. Kelly "didn't commit suicide"

2) The 9/11 Panel is blaming the *FAA* for 9/11 lapse

I want some blood.