Howard Alan Kurtz (/kɜːrts/; born August 1, 1953) is an American journalist and author and host of Media Buzz on Fox News.

[8] Kurtz led the scrutinizing of the media's fairness and objectivity by questioning journalists of top news organizations, including those at CNN.

[9] The show premiered in 1992 when it originated as a one-hour special to discuss the media's coverage of the Persian Gulf War.

[23] On June 20, 2013, Kurtz left CNN to join Fox News Channel to host a weekend media program and write a column for FoxNews.com.

[24] Kurtz's Media Buzz replaced the Fox News Watch program hosted by Jon Scott.

Some problems he identifies include superficiality, lies, hysteria, lack of preparation, sensationalism and conflicts of interest.

[31][32] Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War (2007, ISBN 0-7432-9982-5) chronicles the struggles at TV networks ABC, NBC and CBS to enhance the stature, credibility and audience draw of their anchors of the evening network news programs.

The book's focus is on ABC's Charles Gibson, CBS's Katie Couric and NBC's Brian Williams.

He treats this premise as definitionally true—not defending it outright, but simply building his case as though no other explanation could even theoretically exist.

And so the strange mission of his book is to analyze the hostile relationship between Trump and the mainstream news media without in any way acknowledging any background as to why.

[3] Journalist Mickey Kaus, reporting on and partially quoting from a letter by journalist Charles Kaiser in The New Republic, wrote that Kurtz "has large, non-technical conflicts of interest, since he free-lances and takes money 'from the people he writes about, from Time Warner to Condé Nast.'...

One seemingly conflicting interest is Kurtz co-hosting CNN's Reliable Sources, in which he obtains monetary supplements as well as national renown.

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