Howie Kurtz is a totally fascinating human being to me. The shit that comes out his mouth is just so patently absurd most of the time and yet he delivers it in his best Serious Journalist Voice with the requisite Serious Journalist Concerned Look. The fact that this guy gets paid huge money to do whatever the hell it is that does is pretty troubling. He just encapsulates everything that has gone horribly, horribly wrong in our elite media.
I truly appreciate good journalism, I have relationships with some reporters and have worked closely with others. A huge number of them are hard-working, intelligent and driven people. Truly, the folks who cover state and local politics in this state work their tails off. So t's not as if I simply hate journalists in general or assign an overt bias to most of them. No, what's dangerous is when the media becomess entirely co-opted by the political establishment as vast numbers of the Washington Press corps appears to be. Kurtz and the DC political press are so close to power and so cozy with it that it severely impairs their judgment. The media, especially guys like Kurtz, are simply no match intellectually or strategically for the top communications and message people that elite politicians and political organizations employ. It's frequently embarrasing for them as Kurtz shoud be today.
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