2fer: Tales of 2 scumbags:: Bernie GOLDDIGGER & Judy MILLER

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http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/02/cnns-howard-kurtz-calls-bernard-goldberg-on-ditching-interview.html

CNN's Howard Kurtz calls Bernard Goldberg on ditching interview

posted by halboedeker on Feb 1, 2009 12:55:55 PM

Sounds like there could be a new media feud in the works.

Bernard Goldberg, who has blasted the media for liberal bias, canceled an appearance on today's edition of CNN's "Reliable Sources." Host Howard Kurtz said Goldberg "abruptly canceled, without explanation, even though his people had approached us." Goldberg has a new book to promote, "A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media."

Kurtz, who writes for The Washington Post, went on to challenge Goldberg.

"I assume Bernie respects my work," Kurtz said. "His book, about the press supposedly being in the tank for Barack Obama, quotes me and my articles several times. There it is. He’s been out flogging the thing with Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Lou Dobbs -- people who agree with him. Do you think, maybe, he doesn’t want to leave his pals and face some skeptical questioning? Come on, Bernie, we’ll have a good debate on this issue, one-on-one, without bias. You’re welcome here anytime."

Oh, I hope Goldberg takes the challenge. It could make for good television. Kurtz would be a tougher interviewer than Hannity or O'Reilly.



http://www.cjr.org/news_meeting/the_second_chance_saloon.php

Columbia Journalism Review

Strong Press, Strong Democracy

The Second Chance Saloon

Judith Miller is writing at The Daily Beast. Does she deserve this second chance?

By The Editors

So we’ve noticed that former New York Times reporter Judith Miller has been writing occasionally at The Daily Beast on foreign affairs. Last week, she reported on how some Obama advisors worry that Afghanistan “may be as much of a quagmire as Iraq”; in December, she wrote about the tortuous Israel/Gaza peace process.

Miller enjoyed a long and decorated career at the Times. But she left the paper in 2005, partially due to the controversy surrounding her discredited and inaccurate reporting on Iraq’s pre-war WMD program—reporting that was cited by Bush administration officials in their effort to sell the American public on the Iraq war.

Nowhere does The Daily Beast mention the circumstances that led to Miller’s departure. As a reader put it in an e-mail to CJR, “having Miller write on these things and not acknowledging her failure on Iraq is like seeing a surgeon who won’t tell you he killed his last dozen patients.”

Maybe Miller deserves a scarlet letter. Maybe that’s justice. But maybe that’s just vindictiveness, too. Acknowledging both her long and distinguished career and her colossally bad WMD reporting, does Judith Miller deserve this second chance? And, if so, to what extent should The Daily Beast acknowledge her past mistakes?

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1. Make that three scum bags ...... Howie is a right wing scum bag too

On a weekly basis, Kurtz -- who, due to his deeply conflicted joint positions at both CNN and the Post, has significant influence on how political journalists behave -- makes his method for "media criticisms" clear. He scours the right-wing blogs, religiously consults Drudge, and listens to right-wing talk radio. He writes down all of the scurrilous filth he picks up there and copies it into his column (hence, his prominent, respectful featuring of Red State Erickson's "cokehead" commentary today). His most frequently cited sources are Bill Kristol, Michelle Malkin, and various far-right bloggers. And then he angrily demands to know why the media isn't passing along all the attacks and manufactured scandals he heard from Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin. That's Kurtz's formula for "media criticism."

Kurtz (who is married to former GOP strategist Sherri Annis) regularly devotes whole columns to scandals cooked up by right-wing blogs, only then to toss onto the end of a 5-page blog column a reference to a GOP scandal so that he can claim to have covered that, too.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/03/kurtz/

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2. Agreed. His circus also consists of bemoaning media scrums then re-doing them himself n/t

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3. Kurtz-early Bush enabler in Election 2000; Miller got multimillion severance/retirement from NYT

after false reporting on WMD and Iraq War.