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Howard Kurtz Gives Fox’s Inflammatory Dallas Coverage A Pass

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on July 10, 2016 · Flag

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Fox’s MediaBuzz show, supposedly a media criticism show, somehow missed the horribly inflammatory, divisive and partisan accusations that have been going on at Fox ever since the terrible shooting of 12 Dallas police officers last week. Host Howard Kurtz and guests even praised the media’s “sober coverage.”

Kurtz began the lengthy discussion by asking his three guests if there hasn’t been “a little bit of a lowering of the temperature” of the media coverage. He was referring not just to coverage of the Dallas tragedy but of the shooting deaths of two African Americans by police that preceded it.

“In a word, yes,” guest Keli Goff said. If there’s a silver lining in these awful incidents, she added, it’s that the media coverage “has been much more responsible than it has for previous incidents.” She called it “across the board.”

Kurtz did note that there has been some “pretty inflammatory stuff.” But he cited a “Civil War” New York Post cover as well as a Drudge Report headline, “Black Lives Kill.” He didn’t mention a thing about what has been said on Fox.

We can guess why he didn’t. But what was the excuse of guest Heidi Przybyla, of USA Today? She said the reason the Post and Drudge got so much attention is because, “There were relatively few headlines like that.” She even praised Fox’s Greta Van Susteren for “both paying proper tribute to the law officers and focusing on the egregious nature of this while, at the same time, reading a statement from Black Lives Matter and trying to make the point that condemnation, whether it’s Black Lives Matter protesters condemning all police or partisan sensationalizing Black Lives Matter, is exactly the kind of intolerance that has gotten us to this place. So I was heartened to see newscasters like her try to focus on both sides.”

Well, good on Van Susteren but Przybyla really should have taken a look elsewhere on Fox.

If so, she might have seen Fox host Leland Vittert deliberately suggesting that President Obama was overly partial to the black shooting victims and not so much for the police victims; Or Fox's favorite sheriff, David Clarke, who made five appearances on Fox on Friday, calling Obama the "cop-hater-in-chief" and accusing him of "fuel[ing] anger towards police;" Or Fox contributor Allen West accusing Obama and Hillary Clinton of having "set an atmosphere for the ambush of police officers." Or Fox contributor David Webb who added Black Lives Matter, the Congressional Black Caucus, Bernie Sanders and the Department of Justice to the list of Fox scapegoats.

Finally, with less than one minute left, Kurtz said, “For all the encouraging things I’m hearing here, we still do have political figures, whether it’s on cable news or on Twitter, blaming President Obama, ‘cause he’s supposedly anti-police, blaming Donald Trump’s rhetoric, so it’s not like we’ve moved completely away from that. I wonder how much of that will return.”

Guest Molly Ball said she thought there was a desire now for the country to come together in order to heal.

“I’m glad that the media seem now to want to be part of that, on the positive side,” Kurtz said.

Does he really think that’s about to happen on Fox? If so, maybe we could interest him in buying a certain bridge in Brooklyn.

Watch it below, from the July 10 MediaBuzz.

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d d commented 2016-07-11 21:11:59 -0400 · Flag
@isaiah – IMHO, I doubt Kurtz will cover the Ailes issue on air (unless, perhaps, it actually goes to trial and Ailes should win). But he did write an article online about it in which he carries Ailes’ water (as Media Matters puts it).

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/06/fox-ailes-deny-allegations-in-gretchen-carlson-harassment-suit.html

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/07/fox-s-howard-kurtz-carries-roger-ailes-water-report-sexual-harassment-allegations/211417
John McKee commented 2016-07-11 18:25:06 -0400 · Flag
Kurtz has been at Fox long enough and done enough foxplaining away the indefensible to have permanently disqualified himself for any position outside the RW Nutjob bubble. The quid pro quo for losing any real world credibility he ever had must be massive.
Antoinette commented 2016-07-11 02:22:08 -0400 · Flag
Isaiah, disgraced Nixon Trainee Ailes is still in control of his mouthpieces. He won’t allow negative stories about him on his own network. Kurtz should leave this network before it goes down in flames. He wouldn’t want his name attached to a disgraced network.
David Lindsay commented 2016-07-10 22:19:33 -0400 · Flag
Howie Kurtz is a referee who keeps his thumb on the scale. He was the same way when he was at CNN. When he joined Faux at least the pretense was over.
Eyes On Fox commented 2016-07-10 22:05:11 -0400 · Flag
Yeah, Howie is a media critic. A ‘mainstream’ media critic.
Isaiah Jacobs commented 2016-07-10 22:03:18 -0400 · Flag
I’m still waiting for Howie to cover the Ailes issue.
Dadeo commented 2016-07-10 20:15:13 -0400 · Flag
He should have told of the disgusting display of intolerance and hate displayed by the likes of Megan Kelly, Mark Furman and Hanitty on Friday night. It was quite a display. Notice when Fox tries to get in with the crowd they leave off the Fox identifier on the microphone. Walk away when Fox comes calling.








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