{"id":2630,"date":"2013-05-06T08:46:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T12:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2013-05-06T08:46:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T12:46:36","slug":"how-howard-kurtz-came-to-be-interrogated-on-his-own-cnn-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/05\/06\/how-howard-kurtz-came-to-be-interrogated-on-his-own-cnn-show\/","title":{"rendered":"How Howard Kurtz Came to be Interrogated on His Own CNN Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Howard Kurtz<\/a><\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 mea culpa<\/em> on his own \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reliable Sources\u00e2\u20ac\u009d yesterday made for an extraordinary 15 minutes<\/a> of live television. (Full disclosure: I am an occasional guest on the show.)<\/p>\n

Kurtz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 apology for his most recent journalistic transgression \u00e2\u20ac\u201c his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153inexcusable\u00e2\u20ac\u009d erroneous report last week about openly-gay NBA player Jason Collins<\/a><\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d extended from his personal statement of contrition to a bracing interrogation by two excellent media reporters.<\/p>\n

NPR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s David Folkenflik<\/a><\/strong> and Politico\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dylan Byers<\/a><\/strong> grilled Kurtz about Collins as well as other mistakes from the past that Kurtz admitted he had sometimes waited too long to correct. It was riveting, powerful, and frequently uncomfortable to watch.<\/p>\n

The backstory: In a Sports Illustrated<\/em> piece that broke April 29, Collins became the first active male pro athlete from a major U.S. sport to come out. Kurtz wrote in his Daily Beast blog<\/a> that Collins had not disclosed he had been engaged to a woman, and chastised him for it. He repeated the assertions in a video on The Daily Download, where he is a paid contributor.<\/p>\n

In fact, Collins had<\/em> written of the engagement. Kurtz had missed it, he said yesterday, because he had read the piece \u00e2\u20ac\u0153too fast\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153carelessly.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d On May 2, Kurtz left the Daily Beast<\/a>. He said it was by mutual agreement; HuffingtonPost, among others, said he was fired.<\/p>\n

The live interrogation on CNN was not Kurtz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 idea. He made that clear in his opening statement when he said the network had invited the questioners.<\/p>\n

Folkenflik confirmed this in an interview with TVNewser. (Byers declined an interview because he said he was writing his own blog about the show). Folkenflik was pitched by a CNN executive \u00e2\u20ac\u0153who doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t directly oversee the show,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, not naming names. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a respected figure within CNN.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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Howard Kurtz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 mea culpa on his own \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reliable Sources\u00e2\u20ac\u009d yesterday made for an extraordinary 15 minutes of live television. (Full disclosure: I am an occasional guest on the show.) Kurtz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 apology for his most recent journalistic transgression \u00e2\u20ac\u201c his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153inexcusable\u00e2\u20ac\u009d erroneous report last week about openly-gay NBA player Jason Collins \u00e2\u20ac\u201d extended from his personal … <\/p>\n

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