Ha ha! Reader zings Kurtz and Post on Downing Street Minutes.

[BurtWorm]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/06/22/DI2005062201586.html


Wexford, Pa.: Howard, what's with The Washington Post running a story today about meetings between U.S. officials and Iraqi insurgents? Since the story was broken by the Sunday Times of London only this past weekend, shouldn't The Post wait at least several weeks before picking it up? After all, that seemed to be the paper's policy with the Downing Street Memos. Why break with policy now?

Howard Kurtz: We're trying to speed things up around here.

[Pirate Smile]

1. Nice. Here is another exchange

Washington, D.C.: I really don’t think the mainstream press understand the anger that liberals feel toward Rove about his comments. That was the last straw, and now it's time to take up sides. We just sat through 8 years of you hyping every right wing conceived Clinton scandal and now an administration has lied to get us into a war and is in the process of dismantling free speech and the people inside the Bubble in Washington thinks is business as usual. Either the main stream press start doing some real investigative reporting or step aside and make room for people who are actually willing to do the job.

Howard Kurtz: I understand completely the anger many liberals feel toward the maisntream media's coverage of the Bush administration. I get it every day in my in-box. I've written plenty of pieces and columns about it. (Not that conservatives have any great love for us these days either.) Just this morning, I mentioned a figure from a Pew poll: 54 percent of Democrats say media coverage is too soft on the Bush administration, up from 39 percent last year.