Howard Kurtz’s Bogus Conflict-of-Interest Defense

Commentary
By Jamison Foser

In his Sunday column, Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander addressed what he described as Post media critic Howard Kurtz’s "inescapable conflict" of interest "that is at odds with Post rules" — Kurtz’s side job as host of Reliable Sources on CNN, one of the media companies he is assigned to cover for the Post. Kurtz’s conflicts of interest are, indeed, inescapable. Worse, it often seems Kurtz doesn’t even try