Bloodless Coup

Kurtz on the Schiavo Memo: Kos Right, the Post Wrong

One could practically spend an entire career writing critiques of the inaccuracies and inanities promulgated by Howie Kurtz, so it's no surprise that bloggers like Atrios and Kos regularly take him on. But the withering assessment by Kos of the Post's response to complaints against a recent Kurtz story is just so on (in terms of capturing the habits of Kurtz and the MSM) that I think it merits mentioning:

So, according to Getler, good journalism was practiced by Kurtz's coverage of rank partisan speculation by irresponsible and extremist Right Wing bloggers. But good journalism does NOT require coverage of fact based and reasoned critique of Kurtz's irresponsible work.

Remember folks. Allen's story was RIGHT! Kurtz's story was WRONG!

But Getler has harsh words for Allen and flowers for Kurtz and Powerline.

Pathetic. Yes, the Liberal Media. My ass.

Big media is all about the story and controversy, and far too many successful reporters find it easy to just fill up their columns with the pontifications of ill-informed hacks, rather than to really get to the bottom of things. And too many of the major outlets value snazzy stories that sell over funding lengthy investigations or getting at dry facts. The people who put their own face and names on these supposed "news" stories, and those that abet them, should be ashamed of themselves and find a new line of work. They aren't journalists in any sense of the word that I'm familiar with.