Howard Kurtz: NYT Should Apologize to Nikki Haley and That Story Should Be ‘Obliterated’

Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz slammed The New York Times over a recent report about Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.

The NYT reported that the curtains in Haley’s residence in New York City cost $52,701, which was funded by the State Department. But buried in the article was the fact that it was the Obama administration who ordered those curtains.

Kurtz blasted the story, calling it “one of the worst headlines” he had ever seen by any newspaper and mocked the editor’s note that was added amid backlash.

“What was missing is two things; one is the story should have been obliterated, blown up, digitally erased because it has no reason to being,” Kurtz told Laura Ingraham. “And there should be an apology from the paper to Nikki Haley.”

Ingraham then asked “who reads the editor’s note?” noting that they’re placed at the end of the story.

“I mean… that’s it?!?” Ingraham exclaimed. “They’re able to do that at The New York Times, assailed her character, which essentially is what it was, and add a little blip at the end?”

“Well, at least there was some acknowledgment of all the criticism with the editors. I just don’t think the editors went far enough,” the Media Buzz host responded. “Not only was it a bad headline, when you say that it was unfair to frame this as a Nikki Haley expenditure, then this story simply has no reason for being.”

The Ingraham Angle host blasted the paper, calling it the “New York Slimes” and accusing them of being an “extension of the DNC.”

Watch the clip above, via Fox News.

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