[Political Junkie Too]

I was listening to an interesting exchange on Fox News this morning between Fox News Media Analysis Howie Kurtz and Will Cain. Shannon Bream was the fill-in host moderating the discussion.

Kurtz said that much of the media, despite knowing Biden over many years, were also kept away and only saw him through the media lens. He said the Biden health story was a "hard get" and believes the media was just as shocked as everyone else when they watched the debate.

Cain was having none of that. He told Kurtz directly that it was not a "hard get" story and that the media was complicit in the cover-up. Cain mentioned the stories they ran parroting the White House's "cheap fake" accusations of editing many of their own prior broadcast stories, and all of the stories of how healthy and vigorous Biden was just a few weeks ago.

What was interesting to me was:

1. This was two internal Fox News talents debating each other.
2. I always thought of Kurtz as a fair media analyst, but now I see him as a media apologist.
3. I wonder what the executives will think about Cain attacking one of their weekend show hosts, calling him out for protecting the media he's supposed to be covering, and perhaps damaging Kurtz and the "Media Buzz" reputation?

-PJ

[princeofdarkness]

Howard Kurtz has never impressed me as a media guy who played it down the middle. He’s always shown himself to be a Democrat media shill though tried hiding it. I wasn’t fooled by Bernard Goldberg either.