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administration quit cbs news in frustration after failing to get most of her hard-hitting stories on the air. >> three current fairley high ranking state department officials, an expert in security, an expert in counterterrorism and a top diplomate will in essence be contradicting the obama administration's accounts on benghazi. >> did the white house discourage her aggressive reporting? the new york media swooning over lina dunham .her girls. last week she hosted "saturday night live." >> there is an old saying if you're nervous about giving a speech, imagine the audience naked or imagine they haven't seen you naked. >> plus, bob costas is still battling controversy for battling politics and sports. is he considering hanging it up? i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." it's on monk, noon and night. the malaysian plane that vanished without a trace has become one giant media mystery, drawing constant coverage, endless theories, troubling mistakes and no shortage of speculation. >> that' it's so astonishing to think that this plane took off in some 40, 45 minutes after taking off that it went utterly silent. >> in you reports tonight that the plane's communication system was shut down manually and not because of catastrophic failure. that it was shut down manually. >> nothing seen like this ever before. that search area, it looks horrendous. >> could the plane still be out there, intact and simply diverted to at undisclosed location? >> there is no other way of saying it, in the disappearance of malaysian airlines flight 370 developments today could change everything. >> i don't believe that this airplane crashed. i do believe that it was hijacked. i do believe it landed some place and i would start first looking in pakistan. >> the headline tonight is u.s. officials say it appears more likely that whatever happened to this plane was the result of human intervention, some sort of air piracy. >> are you obsessed with the mystery of flight 370 because the ratings suggest you are. >> in the absence of facts, we have to look at the possibility -- >> so why are you media boosting this story into the stratosphere? joining us now, lauren ashburn, craig crawford, and jim pinkerton, contributing editor at american magazine and a fox news contributor. i get that the story is endlessly fascinating, but what do you make of this tsunami of speculation? >> first, let's be very clear. for the people involved, this is a tragedy and it deserves coverage. the question that you asked at the beginning is is it out of control? and the answer is absolutely yes. it is overkill. we're getting ambiguous answers, we're getting speculation that doesn't happen everyone and it is being used as a ratings polling. >> jim, i hate to say this, but as i watch day after day and hour after hour, it almost seems like it's become a game for the media. it's a great detective story and i think maybe losing sight of the point that lauren just made that there are lives at stake here. >> yes. look, it's the kind of story that we can all relate to. everybody gets on airplanes and it's the news story that news is made for. you don't know what's going to happen next. jeff wise said every day we report something that would have been preposterous the day before and now it seems plausible and real. and if there's a value of this media overkill, if you will, or just kill, is that the malaysian government, for example, does not seem to be very responsive. .it's possible that the ma lashan government's disinterest in getting involved with this at the time the airplane was still in the air might have cost people their lives. >> you have to lay that against the reality of the networks going overboard on this, that there's all this airtime to fill and relatively too fast with which to fill it. it's disaster porn, and that always gets ratings. the international intrigue and mystery with this one, it leads to some very sloppy reporting. that's the problem here. you point out, jim, that there was retorting rumors the previous day that are facts today. well, what are the sources for these? right now, they're fingering the pilot. well, the sources for that i saw in the stories were officials with direct knowledge of the thinking of officials. that sounds like palm readers. we still don't know whether this could have been other people on board who did that. >> and i have to agree with jim. there has been good reporting. "the wall street journal" came out and said that the engines were transmitting and that the flight could have taken five more hours than we knew about. reuters came and said it could be in the indian islands and wire had a great piece. >> but none of those are named sources, none. >> but wired had a great piece. i think the speculation on television has been horrific. brendan connier came out and said as a terrorist in a hijacking expert, he gave his opinion on what could happen. and it wasn't salacious and it wasn't porn, as you put it, but it was an interesting piece. that's what's missing. what is missing is context. >> here is a fact that i did not know. here you go. clive irving at the daily baste pointed out that there's a european union registry of airlines not allowed to fly into the european union. it's hundreds of airlines. every country now must have their own airline, they're in business with a 757. you realize later after this they don't have the adequate infrastructure, safety and surveillance that we take for granted when we fly american or united. >> the mistakes and the false alarms, as i call them, they tend to vanish into the ether. there's all this that focuses on the passengers that have two passports. just picking out a couple, bloomberg suspected aircraft tail found floating in the gulf of thailand and it turned out to be a bunch of logs. these big oil slix off the coast of vietnam reported to be not from an airplane. just the other day cnn was rothing lithium batteries exploding could be responsible for a crash. we don't know what is right or wrong. cnn is well equipped to cover this kind of story because of its big international story, but at the same time, cnn is covering almost nothing else. i think that has opened the door for a lot of these speculation. >> well, of course it has. but cnn is primed for this. they have amazing news resources across the country that could cover this. but what's happening is that cnn is taking it to the next level and it is becoming dominant, missing all other stories like the cia scandal. ukraine has been kicked off the page. i do turn to cnn because it is 24/7. >> when he was on the plane and as soon as he stopped, a reporter asked the question about rising deportation. they immediately cut away from that. i was actually interested in that answer. and went to a reporter in the field who ultimately concluded about this plane story they don't know, we don't know, nobody knows. >> cnn's ratings up nearly 67% in prime time, at least in the first few days. cnn anchor chris cuomo talked about the fact that there is this hot air about the story. the job in a situation like this is to have more questions than answers because simply not enough is known. if it seems like we're nibbling around the edges, it's because we are. how much of that is too much? >> look, there's a new player in this media mix, it's a chinese news agency. two-thirds of the people on that airplane were chinese. the chinese don't care, it was their people on the airplane and they want answers and i think they're going to make a major play in terms of forcing a better investigation out of cnn or the american media. >> one of the things that troubles me here, and i understand the great temptation, and people are genuinely interested. how does an airplane disappear out of thin air and all of that? but the fact that it is a plane that took off from malaysia, imagine if they had been a plane that took off from new york. i think there would be a lot more focus. obviously, there would be lots of interviews with the families of those on board. there's a lot more focus on the potential human toll here and instead it has become this sort of where in the world is flight 370? >> a tom chancy novel. >> yeah. and we live in a society where the microwave takes too long, we want the answers to every myste mystery. in this case, we're getting a few facts, but why can't we just wait? and in the news room, you know, talk about speculation, i remember today in the news room where a lot of those rumors and leads that didn't pan out stayed in the news room. now that they're shoved right out the door as soon as you hear them. >> you pursued them, but not on camera. you didn't feed the beast by talking about them on camera. and i understand your point, jim, that some of this reporting is helping us to understand and it's putting pressure on the malaysian government. and i must say this shows you why nooshgs like the "new york times" and "wall street journal" have aviation experts who provide the beat. they provide some of the best information. but even now, we're assuming because of the clues that have been pieced together, that it was -- something happened in the cockpit, that it was maybe one of the pilots, now the pilots homes are being searched. but we don't know that and we're reporting on speculation by u.s. officials and intelligence sources who may not know what they're talking about. >> but we are piecing together it probably was an understand in the cockpit. we probably have nailed that down, which is why the flight simulator guy, too. if this is a terrorist act, which is to say these pilots were somehow involved, which means now you have to investigate the community, the people of malaysia, their mosque, it opens up the -- the world has moved away from terrorism and the media follows the lead on that. this could bring it back in a big way. >> the facts or the theory on the pilot, other experts have said, well, the plane was veering and changing out. that actually is consistent with amateurs. >> let's not indulge in this ourselves. >> but this is overkill. i don't care if you're getting some facts, if you're not getting other facts, it is too much. this country has too many different problems to dominate the news by this craziness. >> well, i think there's been some speculation on fox as there has been on other networks. msnbc tried to stick with politics, but even msnbc is doing more plane coverage. but democratic senator dianne feinstein accuses the cia of spying on her intelligence committee but that was covered. >> and it's talking about waterboarding. >> and today we have this referendum in crimea. i'm going to go out on a limb and say yes, most people there are going to vote to affiliate with russia. and this was a story that two weeks ago we said was a huge foreign policy challenge, was going to be the biggest test of the obama presidency. >> this is a mistake, howie. >> this is a mistake, too? >> this is a mistake to not cover these stories. and you and i and all of us know that. >> and the reason for that is? >> because we're missing important news. >> so why does it focus remain on this missing plane, tragic ago it is? >> because it's almost a game now. it's a game at this point. everybody and their mother, including mine, has a theory about where this plane is. it's in the jungle, it's everywhere. >> it's like on the tv show "lost," we had to wait six seasons to find out what the smoke monster was. and once we get the results, it was kind of dissatisfying. i think a year from now, we'll -- how much will we remember about this story once we find out about what happened? >> if it's terrorism, we'll remember a lot. >> and your mother's theory is probably as good as anybody else's. don't forget to send me a tweet about this coverage, about this topic, about the plane, what do you think of the coverage? we'll read some of those at the end of the program. on when we come back, cheryl atkinson quit cbs news and tells me she hasn't been able to get her investigator stories on the air. and later, does america loves hbo girls as much as the manhattan media? 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>> i felt like we were being asked to play the piano with two fingers. there were concern amongst the entire embassy staff. >> attkisson tried to get out of her contract a year ago. she quit cbs recently after she could not get her pieces on news. here is what she told me. it's not a matter of me being on air. the idea that so many of the important, interesting, investigative topics out brought to the table, often exclusively and could find no home at cbs in the past three years or so. >> what do you think about this? >> she was covering investigator stories, winning emmys and all of a sudden the obama administration happened and she said i'll apply the same investigative standard to the obama administration and she discovered cbs didn't want that. they didn't want her to go after the obama administration as hard as she went after other topics. even politico had to admit that she ran into a liberal bias at cbs and that's why she's no longer there. >> that was a source or liberal sources telling that topo litco. i think this is more than a left-right issue. chersharyl attkisson did a repo and earlier she had done some award winning reporting on bush's t.a.r.p. program and iraq contracting fraud. it's not just left to right, but it seems to be a case where she felt it was almost impossible to get these tougher pieces on the air. >> i don't think there's been any secret that there's liberal bias at cbs going back to when walter concite denounced the vietnam war and that lbj threw him out of the white house. >> that was based on a reporting trip to vietnam. >> it was, but that was a liberal point of view against the war, wasn't it? i'm not saying it's wrong. i worked with cbs on the early show throughout the bush years and i can guarantee you almost no one there i can think of voted for bush, i'm sure. i didn't, either. it didn't bother me. i think the point is, fess up to it and then be as credit kag kal to the people you support as those you don't. >> i can tell you firsthand that there is liberal bias in the media. a wrote a piece in fox news this morning talking about my time as a reporter where i didn't feel comfortable wearing a cross on the air. this exists. and whether or not it existed for sharyl attkisson it doesn't undermine the fact that she is there. >> she is working on a book, the title is stonewalled, one reporter's struggle to find the truth in washington. it's rare to see somebody walk away at that level with a record of accomplishments.the. >> and good for her. good for sharyl for doing. >> does it tarnish cbs news? >> i don't know. they can say there's tons of liberal bias. there are tons of examples you could point so that say no. >> i think it's true that the washington media has been bias for obama since he first surfaced. i thought a lot of media acted like school girls cheering for justin bieber. it's wasn'ted as the years have gone by. but the media -- >> some say the media has been soft on this president. >> no, actually, i didn't vote for obamobama. i just said i didn't vote for bush. >> you didn't vote? >> i have to add somebody did a lot of investigative reporting. it is not uncommon for reporters to clash with their bosses about what is important. what atkins katkisson told me w been three years. >> i think it can be a way of tarnishing or neutralizing reporters when you say they lean one way or the other when sharyl attkiss attkisson's report shows she has looked at both sides. >> do we believe in this day and age that journalists can be completely objective without bringing their bias to the table? >> we believe they can be fair. >> which is a lot different than being bias. >> we don't check our citizenship at the door when we become journalists. i think the point is, fess up to it and show people you're as tough on the people you taut support as though those you don't. >> your trio is words like speak truth to power. power is the obama administration. now it's obama and reporters should be equally objective towards both. >> gotta go. greg, jim, thank you very much for coming in today. up next, lena dunham is the media's new it girl, but does most of the country care about her new series, "it girls" and later, bob costas take on whether he might retire. they work fast on heart burn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. alka-seltzer fruit chews. enjoy the relief! ...return on investment wall isn't a street... isn't the only return i'm looking forward to... for some, every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for college. our commitment to current and former military members and their families is without equal. lena dunhham is a media sensation. >> i came here to say i don't think we should see each other any more. i don't think we should see each other any more and it makes me feel stupid and pathetic picture to get a picture of your [ bleep ] to know that you meant it for somebody else and you don't have to explain. >> i put that question to our two panelists. >> joining us now from new york is joe concha. we're talking about "girls." you're a girl. i'll start with you. does lena dunham deserve a sers accolades for creating this? >> lena dunham was originally interviewed by the "new york times" when she was 11 years old about her fashion choices. this is a woman who has grown up among the media elite. she's receiving coverage and i think it makes sense. >> joe, i'm going to guess that you're not a big fan because you described her in print as largely unfunny and extremely self-important. and when she went on "saturday night live" as you point out, second lowest rating of the season. how come lena dunham gets so much media attention? as you mentioned, second lowest rating of the season for "saturday night live." "girls" gets about 800,000 viewers. compare that to "sex in the city," much more of an impact on its generation. game of thrones, 5 million. the audience isn't quite there. most of the manhattan media, obviously, lives and is around manhattan, they love the show, at least describes them as elise. the problem is, the rest of the country is not following lock step within them. and one final point, you bought up the "new york times" before doing a feature of her on age 11. since that time, according to the american prospector, lena dunham has been talked about or mentioned in the "new york times" alone 300 times. the problem is the audience is simply not following. they don't buy what lena dunham is buying. a lot of it is strictly for shock value and therefore the press comes running. >> what i would say is these new york media outlets constantly steal with each other's subjects and journalists, we've heard they're lazy and -- >> are you saying there's a certain pack mentality? >> i don't think i need to tell you this. you've covered it for years. the pack mentality knows lena dunham is a subject, she's dynamic, she's easy. -- >> and you're leaving out the most important thing. she takes off her clothes a lot and we like to write about that and she gets testy when she's candidate about it. she's featured in a lot of magazines like vogue. >> that's right. "vogue" has come under constant criticism for featuring only conventionally attractive women, faces and bodies, right? so lena dunham, by going on their cover, allowed "vogue" to garner a lot of press even though those photos were still air brushed. >> how much of this is incestus, you live in new york, you go to the same parties, and the hbo series "girls" still covers girls and it seems like they're all writing about each other. >> it's the bubble mentality. i should mention, by the way, at least mention air brushed. i am air brushed now, as well. i am wearing makeup. >> it's the only reason we let you on the show. >> thank you, howie. we see this time and again with media. let's say six inches of snow is heading towards manhattan. breaking news, they're going to tell us what kind of horror we're going to go through. let's say that storm hits philadelphia and miss is new york. you don't hear a thing about it. if the new york media loves "girls" they therefore think the rest of the country will love "girls" and simply the numbers don't add up. >> a lot of people called lena dunham self-absorbed. the media love writing about their own and that's what we're seeing here. >> i cannot argue with that. the one story, just to shift gears here that i thought would go ahead a lot more coverage, oscar pistorius's murder trying, he shot his girlfriend. it seems like it hasn't made much of a media splash. why is that? >> that's true. i believe it's because there haven't been very many lurid information from the courtroom. we should be hearing a lot more about his murder trial. >> joe? >> i think it's a matter of pecking order. you have a missing 777, what's going on in the ukraine, the problems with obamacare, and a south african murder trial where there's no race involved. add up all those factors and that's why it's low on the pecking order. >> i think there's a certain lack of drama because we know he shot and skilled his girlfriend and -- >> allegedly. >> well, no, he did shoot her. >> but not knowing his intent. >> but whether or not he is legally responsible, whether or not he thought it was an intruder. maybe not that many people are captivated by it. joe, pleased to be back. thanks very much for joining us. meanwhile, your tweets are coming in. it can make our own opinions about the validity of the speculation. after the break, more of my conversation with nbc's bob costas. is he thinking about calling it a career? 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yes. but it outnumbers the constructive use many, many, many times over. it was that gun culture in the nfl that i was talking about. it was misunderstood as something hostile to the second amendment or a gun control speech. i never used those words. but part of that is on me because the time was too short and i didn't recognize how truly sensitive and volatile the issue was. >> nbc pays billions to carry the football and carry the olympics. you said if you had a son, you wouldn't want him to play football. is there a self-imposed pressure because your employer has these massive deals with the leagues and the sports organizations that you cover? or -- and why do you think there aren't more people speaking out about steroids and violence and concussions in the nfl? >> it's a legitimate question. here is the way i look at it and perhaps rationalize it. if i were to be on the periphery writing an article a week or doing a commentary on fox every single week -- >> that's easy. >> i'm not reaching as big an audience. my feeling is if once a year i can do a commentary or interview roger goodell, and this is just for the sake of context, and i hope it doesn't sound like i'm patting myself on the back. four years ago i said in one of these halftime segments, the nfl is going to face lawsuits coming out of this and many people scoffed. but we see that the lawsuits keep coming. i asked roger goodell air four years ago, what would you tell the parents of a young boy who said we're lifelong fans, we're season ticket holders, but knowing now what we know, we won't let our son play football. now what we see as part of the general conversation outside sports pages, holes that show nearly 50% of american parents say they wouldn't let their kid play football. >> is there a -- >> generally so. >> you've been around long enough, you can get away with it. you're bob costas, that they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them -- yes. >> -- by taking on things that are par and parcel of the sports -- >> generally speaking, yes, but with notable exceptions. bryant gumble and real sports are like the 60 minutes of sports. bob lee, and outside the lines at espn with all these leagues and all these sports, they do a fantastic job. they should win a peabody for the work that they do on serious sports issues. but generally speaking, especially during the games themselves, there aren't that many people willing to take it on. i am willing to take it on, but here is the point. i respect and enjoy the drama and theater of sports. did i talk about steroids in sports years and years before others did? i did. but i didn't talk about it with the bases loaded and the game on the line in the ninth inning. have i talked about issues that relate to the national football league that some people thinking are political? yes. but when some people say right in the middle of the game? no. you never missed a play. it's at halftime. you didn't miss the last play at second quarter or the kickoff. >> and you are alien ating part of your audience because you won't just stick with the balls and the strikist and the extra touchdowns. >> and i'm sure that people said howard cosell, could be be overbearing and obnoxious, but also could be courageous and correct shouldn't have said anything about billie jean king or arthur ash or that people today shouldn't say anything about jason collins or the football player from missouri who may soon be drafted in the national football league. or shouldn't say anything about with sports. >> are you looking forward to the happening up of the long and storied career of bob costas? >> there will come a day. i'm not sure when. i know for sure he'll i'll do 2016 in rio. there should be a day that you leave before they -- >> yank you off the stage? >> yeah. but tom brokaw -- not comparing myself in stature or accomplishment, but tom brokaw is still part of abc news. >> but he's not on every night. >> that's right. i could see myself doing baseball, i could see myself doing interviews and commentaries. but there comes a time -- i'm not exactly sure where it is -- where you're no longer the front and center guy and someone who is, like i was but doesn't seem like that long ago to me, sooels seems like the blink of an eye, the irreverent young newcomer, that man or woman deserves their chance. >> bob costas, thanks very much. >> thank you, howie. your tweets still pouring in on the missing plane. joanne corely, too much at cnn over ki overkill equals meaningless. michael door din, time to more on. mixed reviews of president obama trying to be funny with zach galifianakis. why he didn't get much applause from the pundits. 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"nightline" co-anchor dan harris was on abc this week plugging a book about his battle against panic attacks, one of which he had on "good morning america" a decade ago. >> i am about to freak out on national television. >> but it's too early to prescribe statins solely for cancer production. >> at this point i realize i'm helpless. so i bail right in the middle. >> that does it for news. we're going to go back now to robin and charlie. >> once the fear subsided, humiliation rushed in. >> and i say good, good, good for dan harris to bring this up, to talk about an anxiety disorder on air, to talk about mental illness, ander, he's writing a new book. >> he's writing a new book. it takes a lot of courage to replay your worst professional moment on the air. he talked about recreational drug use when he was trying to cope with this. but i'm going to subtract some points because he is in fact peddling a book. he didn't talk about this until he was peddling a book. so my score on the buzz-meter is 6. >> well, i think you're completely wrong. i'm giving it a 9. good for you, dan, for bringing it up. >> not completely wrong. i'm looking at the whole picture. >> you're wrong. wrong, wrong. >> your turn. >> late night comedian chelsea handler was on cnn with piers morgan. you know, the guy who's losing his show at the end of the month. and she complained that he was tweeting during the commercial break and kind of tuning out. >> you can't even pay attention for 60 seconds. you're a terrible interviewer. >> well, you just weren't keeping my attention. >> but that's not my problem. >> that is your problem. >> this is your show. you have to to pay attention to the guests you invite on your show. >> you're not interesting enough. >> it doesn't matter how interesting i am. you signed up for this show. >> tvg does. >> well, maybe that's why your job is coming to an end. >> wow. >> chelsea's a comedian and that was as good a putdown i've ever seen of someone who's not immensely likeable. but it's a slight deduction for kicking piers while he's down. >> this is a running thing they've had with each other. they did this two years ago. they did it a year ago. this is all about ratings. and it's her being mean to him for being mean. which i don't think is a good idea. >> he's being mean. i'm giving it an 8. go, chelsea. >> 4. 4. stop being mean. >> not very generous. still to come, the one spelling mistake television should never make. and the "new york post" take on the pink president. 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"i'll take the pink one. prez stuns shoppers at 42nd street gap." of course as the story points out he was buying sweaters for sasha and malia. pink sweaters. >> and i'm telling you, his pr department has to know that by hanging up or holding up a pink sweater he's going to get guff for it. >> you're blaming the white house for the fact that the president of the united states is doing a nice thing by shopping for his daughters? >> do you hear what he got his wife? a pair of socks. come on. his big cheerleader in chief. that makes me even more mad. >> okay. no pass on that. but sometimes i get on the "new york post" for these inflammatory front page headlines. this was funny, the story was accurate, he was holding up the pink sweater. >> then he's got to learn how to take his lumps. >> all right. you're blaming the president and not the paper. i think we're not too exercised over this one. that is it for this edition for "media buzz." i'm howard kurtz. go to our facebook page. i hope you'll like it. we conduct a lot of conversations there. and check out our new redesigned home page, foxnews.com/mediabuzz. we're back here next sunday morning 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. we begin with a fox news alert on the missing malaysian airlines jet. malaysian investigators now focusing on the backgrounds of the pilots, the crew, and the ground staff, who worked on that jetliner, still looking for any clues as to why someone on board would possibly fly it off course. and malaysian officials now confirming this was a deliberate act. hi, everybody. i'm jamie colby. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> and hello on this sunday. i'm eric shawn. there is still no sign of that boeing 777. this as 11 countries now join the desperate international search effort. that brings the total number of nations to

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