Howard Kurtz to Fox News: Five observations

[Casino67]

Washington Post:

Longtime CNN media-show anchor Howard Kurtz is headed to Fox News, where he will do … well, a bunch of things. According to a Fox press release, he will “anchor a version of what is now called Fox News Watch, which focuses on the media, with a new format during the weekends.” He’ll also do what Kurtz does: writing and commentating and tweeting and so on.

 

Five observations:

 

1) Kurtz has long had a rapport with Fox News chief Roger Ailes. Here’s one he wrote for the Daily Beast in 2010, titled “Roger Ailes Lets Rip.” The backdrop for the interview was a barrage of criticism on the Fox News airwaves directed at the Obama White House. Ailes, via Kurtz:

Sipping coffee from a “Fair & Balanced” mug, Ailes insists that his channel lives up to the logo in its treatment of the administration. “We are not interested in savaging them. We are interested in the truth. We’re interested in two points of view; most networks aren’t.” Fox has beaten the drums on some stories that the mainstream media have wound up following, such as allegations that led to the resignation of environmental aide Van Jones, and others—such as a voter-intimidation case involving two New Black Panther Party members—that are widely viewed as overblown.

 

[Geee]

Well, we'll see how this goes. Another step toward making Fox like everyone else??

[Valin]

Well, we'll see how this goes. Another step toward making Fox like everyone else??

If it does it will go away.