Mickey gets email from Howard Kurtz that the WaPo’s head media critic is finally… after ten days… breaking radio, video and text silence on the Eason Jordan Affair. But what will Kurtz say? We will know very soon.
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Howard Kurtz went on record as to his unwillingness to go on the record. He tapped, strolled, spun and otherwise danced a good fight and left me disappointed. He has reasons not to bite the CNN hand that counts out his pay but; I wished he had.
Here it is:
Well things are getting heated over on Jay Rosen blog. He appears to be part of the tap dancing MSM.
I was a bit surprised by this actually.
This videotape is the new Form 180. There will be a cursory mention here and there that the tape exists, but no demand from MSM that it be made available (oh, maybe someday, when we’re well past the point, Tim Russert will interview Jordan and say “So, Eason, how about letting us take a look at that tape?”). As usual, new media wants to shine a spotlight and old media wants to hide it under a barrel.
I love how Kurtz ends the piece with David Gergen’s quote: “He deserves the benefit of the doubt”.