Howie Kurtz Scolds Media Over Coverage Of ‘Bogus’ Steven Slater Story

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 5:24 pm, August 15th, 2010

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Howard Kurtz hates shark week. Kidding! Howie Kurtz simply does not approve of either Steven Slater nor the adoring coverage he received at the hands of the media. Especially the latter. Kurtz saved his Slater rant for the last few minutes of Reliable Sources today, the gist of it being that Slater could have killed someone, and the media has gone overboard in their coverage of his antics (cue: “those darn kids!”).

And here’s what left me with motion sickness: this JetBlue clown, the flight attendant who got ticked off at a passenger, then triggered the emergency chute at JFK Airport and slid his way out of a job and got himself arrested is actually being celebrated by the media.

Yes, I know, it’s August and he’s got over 200,000 Facebook fans. But Steven Slater could have killed someone on the runway with that reckless move. And yet, look at this — front page of “The New York Times,” front page of “USA Today,” front page of the New York tabloids, and television in a tizzy.

Yes, the media went overboard — as much as I enjoyed their coverage, by the end of the week the NYT appeared to have made Stephen Slater their personal mascot. However, in the grand scheme of overdone stories this year (and make no mistake this has been a banner year), overdoing a story 98% of the country enjoys hearing about seems to me to be a lesser sin than say, a beer summit clock. Watch Howie rain on Slater’s media parade below.

howie kurtz, Steven Slater, The State of Journalism

shootfromthehip

Memo to Kurtz.

It’s the FUCKING NEW YORK POST, genius.

They are in the business of selling newspapers.

This is what people wanted to know about last week.

What they don’t care about, Howie, is you.

He could not have “killed someone.”

How? With his secret gay laser beams on the tarmac?

You are a fucking yawner and you certainly lost my respect years ago.

Time for you to maybe think about retirement.

Seriously.
shootfromthehip

Follow up, guess who else wants to sell papers? The New York Times and USA Today.

Smart move by them and the NY Post.

Sorry you think otherwise, Howie.

But I think all of them made the right call going with a story that we all were curious about.
JimBob

I would have loved to have had Steven Slater on some of the flights I have
been on. Maybe he would have opened the door and thrown some of the obnoxious bastards
I have seen out the door at 25,000 feet.
And I don’t care what his orientation is, I think he had just had enough of the crap he had to deal with
most of his flights!
In fact he probably should be on this board>
http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

True . He’s not major news , like the Salahis or Balloon Boy .
BatBoy

Howie Kurtz said, “But Steven Slater could have killed someone on the runway with that reckless move.”

After seeing the video, something tells me Howie has no idea what he is talking about!

Then again, I had that opinion of him for quite some time now!
shootfromthehip

“something tells me Howie has no idea what he is talking about!”

We finally agree on something, BatBoy,

;)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Franois-Comeau-Lapointe/100001365944667 François Comeau-Lapointe

What the hell is this? Why do people still listen to him? Medias are free to do whatever coverage they want. If he isn’t happy, he is free to answer to them.

-François Comeau-Lapointe
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

No more or less bogus than the week of “OMG, Michelle went to Spain!! Gasp!!”
Contessa

Howard’s talking about him too – bad hypocrite Howard…