published material that drew denunciation of the white house. plus an anchor known mainly for her overseas exploits joins the sunday morning line-up. our report on christiane amanpour making her debut at abc s this week. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. it s not that the criticism is not legitimate. the media did perform badly by and large in the sacking of shirley sherrod. liberal journalists did say some awful things about conservatives on that off the record discussion group. conservative commentators did accuse the mainstream media of schilling for obama, by not getting exercised about that new black panther controversy. there are serious questions about what rolling stone s michael hastings did with general mcchrystal. but never in my professional lifetime has the media bashing been so deafening, so personal, and so much of it carried out by some pundits against other pundits. here s just a brief sample. for weeks fox news and its friends have be