{"id":54,"date":"2013-06-21T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/21\/kurtz-goes-from-mainstream-to-fox"},"modified":"2013-06-21T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T19:01:00","slug":"kurtz-goes-from-mainstream-to-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Kurtz goes from \u2018mainstream\u2019 to Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Howard Kurtz is joining the Fox News Channel as its latest on-air star after working for several years at CNN, the flagship news network of the hated \u201cmainstream media\u201d that Fox news hounds love to bash.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/06\/howard-kurtz-leaves-cnn-for-fox-93109.html?hp=r14\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/06\/howard-kurtz-leaves-cnn-for-fox-93109.html?hp=r14\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/06\/howard-kurtz-leaves-cnn-for-fox-93109.html?hp=r14<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting development.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz wrote for years as media critic for the Washington Post, also while serving as host of CNN\u2019s \u201cReliable Sources,\u201d which covered media issues for the news network. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll actually watch Fox when Kurtz joins the network and I\u2019ll listen for any hint that Kurtz joins the pack of \u201cmainstream media\u201d bashers who routinely stick it in the eye of Fox\u2019s more \u201cliberal\u201d competitors.<\/p>\n<p>As Politico reports, Kurtz wasn\u2019t a member of the anti-Fox pack of journalists that have blasted Fox for the rightward slant in its news coverage. He would ding Fox occasionally, but he also took shots at the other networks and media organizations. I\u2019ve always found Kurtz to be a fair critic.<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019ll become a part of network that keeps touting its \u201cfair and balanced\u201d approach to reporting, which actually is a ruse. The network isn\u2019t fair or balanced, so I just wish it would stop making the false claim. And no, it\u2019s no more unbalanced than, say, MSNBC, which tilts leftward in its reporting and commentary. The difference is that MSNBC makes no claims of fairness and \u201cbalance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m anxious to see what kind of conversion Kurtz makes when he joins Fox. I hope he stays true to his record as an equal-opportunity critic.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Kurtz is joining the Fox News Channel as its latest on-air star after working for several years at CNN, the flagship news network of the hated \u201cmainstream media\u201d that Fox news hounds love to bash. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/06\/howard-kurtz-leaves-cnn-for-fox-93109.html?hp=r14 This is an interesting development. Kurtz wrote for years as media critic for the Washington Post, also while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kurtz goes from \u2018mainstream\u2019 to Fox<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}