issues was the right was much louder in the case. the net work was scared of the right. economically they were scared of a right wing boycott of the show. what s different here is, it s little media matters and journalism professors it s also the white house and state department and the most powerful people in the world. sure. the republican party was out there attacking dan rather. i don t see the democratic party doing that. i want to play this clip from laura logan. i have no opinions one way or another about laura s body of work and don t feel i m here to go after laura logan. i know this story and her other work. this is a speech given to the better government association in chicago last year. take a listen. there s a big song and dance whether this was a terrorist
to me. what happens when you mix ideology with deception? and undercover activist james o keefe has a new media target. we discovered something else interesting about huffington post reporter sam stine. he accuses the reporter of getting his sources drunk. is this the new face of conservative journalism? plus, as facebook reveals more and more about us, is privacy passe? why is blogger jeff jarvis revealing so much about his personal life? we ll ask him. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. every week it seems there s another one, and there are at least a dozen more to go televised drama featuring mit and rick and herman and newt and michele and the rest of the gang. but these primetime programs, are they really about chris wallace and anderson cooper and wolf blitzer and brian williams and charlie rose? it s time now to meet the 2012 republican presidential contenders. here s the format for our debate tonight. let s get to it and meet the c
opinion journalists. you know where they are coming from and you can read their columns and another thing to have the people supposedly objective journalists laying their personal opinions and they re extreme in public. i think it completely undermines the credibility and undermines the credibility of the news organizations. that s one of the reasons that weigold was fired. it s really bad. bad for journalism. bret: there are also journalism professors in here from esteemed journalism schools. that is what so remarkable, people of supposedly that high level, opinion-makers and teachers speaking with unbelievable ve non-never credited thep opposition with idea, sincerity, in evidence principle, talking about them as nazis. i was also impressed by the low level of the discussion in this and the writing. if this is the best liberal journalism can do, that is probably why our side is winning the argument. bret: leave it there. that s it for the panel.
opinion journalists. you know where they are coming from and you can read their columns and another thing to have the people supposedly objective journalists laying their personal opinions and they re extreme in public. i think it completely undermines the credibility and undermines the credibility of the news organizations. that s one of the reasons that weigold was fired. it s really bad. bad for journalism. bret: there are also journalism professors in here from esteemed journalism schools. that is what so remarkable, people of supposedly that high level, opinion-makers and teachers speaking with unbelievable ve non-never credited thep opposition with idea, sincerity, in evidence principle, talking about them as nazis. i was also impressed by the low level of the discussion in this and the writing. if this is the best liberal journalism can do, that is probably why our side is winning the argument. bret: leave it there. that s it for the panel.
to encouraged others to kill stories about obama s pastor jeremiah wright in the 2008 presidential campaign. in one instance, spencer ackerman of the washington independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from obama s relationship with wright by changing the subject. pick one of obama s conservative critics, he wrote. fred barnes, karl rove, who cares, and call them racists. his colleague kevin drumm disagreed saying, turning this into a gutter brawl would probably hurt the obama brand pretty strongly. ackerman struck back saying, i m not saying obama should do this. i m saying we should do this. some of those included the threads are political science and journalism professors. we ll have more on the developing story wednesday on special report. florida governor and u.s. senate candidate charlie crist tells the wall street journal it s a lot more fun being an independent. crist who moderated many of