One Heck of a Correction by Howard Kurtz

Howie Kurtz is a douch. I'd love to know how he got that job to begin with.

 

Interested to see if he mentions this on Reliable Sources on Sunday.

 

Why'd Howie run a correction a month after he learned of his mistake?

Because he got caught. The New Yorker was sniffing around:

 

Wow, that is epic fail.

 

Anything to knock Kurtz down several dozen notches. And by several dozen notches, I mean as far away from politics and journalism as possible.

 

Yeah. I can see how it could happen as he described. And I can also see how he hoped it would go away with none the wiser.

 

Another fucked up mistake by Kurtz:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/1011/Newsweek_retracts_Pelosi_quote.html

 

The more telling thing to me is that it apparently fit the narrative he was going for perfectly. Gotta love Beltway media. Kurtz's show on CNN is horrendous, by the way.

 

There is something to be said to having and editor who will ask a reporter "And how do you know this?" and "Is that really what he/she said."

 

Kurtz didn't help himself with his "tweet" correction either:

By not explaining anything, he gave the impression that the quote was not for attribution -- i.e. off the record -- not that she never said it.

 

This happens to anyone else in the industry who's not a so-called "star," and they get shown the door immediately (with a helping assist via a swift kick in the ass) ...