On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote:
> The disgraced former host of CNN's "Reliable Sources" will take over "Fox > News Watch" from Jon Scott on July 1: > > > http://www.mediaite.com/tv/exclusive-fox-news-expected-to-announce-howard-kurtz-will-join-network/ > > And remember folks, he started his career at Rolling Stone--did Washington > make him a Republican or was he always one? > I did not know he worked at Rolling Stone (when was that?). I do know that he is married to Sheri Annis, who is associated with a particularly nasty brand of stealth conservative Republican politics in California. She worked on controversial (and successful propositions to eliminate or greatly curtail bilingual education and affirmative action in the state. She worked on Arnold's campaign, but that really makes her a Pete Wilson Republican (Pete Wilson is the former two-term Republican Governor here that is basically responsible for the near extinction of the Republican Party in this state). Of course a man's politics do not have to be the same as his wife's (my wife is pretty much a-political, which is the opposite of my political orientation), and it is not true that strong political convictions makes someone biased or unreliable as a journalist. But I don't see anything in Kurtz' background that would make him distasteful to Fox News (despite the potshots that folks like O'Reilly have taken at him over the years). Krutz's contract with CNN apparently expires at the end of June, which I guess explains why CNN, unlike the Daily Beast, decided to give Howie a more graceful exit after his series of mistakes capped by the Jason Collins incident. They could have fired his ass, but instead let him ride out the last few months of his contract, but I suspect, despite the disingenuous tone of Kurtz' statement confirming the change, that there has never been a snowballs's chance in hell of Howie continuing at CNN. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
