about prime time speech, commentators going at it and less than two weeks after the texas massacre, a gunman with a grudge against his surgeon killed 4 people in a tulsa medical building before taking his own life. former cmn anchor says she was this florida the day after the parkland, florida, when produce s s broke producers brushed off her pleas for air time, and the following day told her to return to new york. as for texas, baldwin predicts the audience starts to drop off. no ratings, less coverage. it s as simple as that. i think it s a little more complicated. it s not just about revenue. people have followed the texas tragedy intensely are, but there comes a point where compassion fatigue sets in. maybe people move on and the media move on because the past has convinced them that that nothing will change. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, piers morgan on softening his approach to talking about the guns and coverage of of the biden presid
and have any other odds i influences. but outside influences. this could also set back women because we were in a phase when she wrote this article where we were believing all women without vetting claims. johnny if depp, no angel in this trial howard: well, on that point, you used the word icky, understatement of the year [laughter] yeah. howard: if amber heard hadn t written that the op-ed four years ago saying she was the victim of domestic abuse, can t name depp, both of them wouldn t have been dragged through this unbelievably ugly spectacle that the i think made both of them look awful. yeah. and it turns out that the aclu was actually behind this article. she can t even read it. there have been a lot of lawyers, howie, who have said that johnny depp could essentially sue the washington post because they have the responsibility to vet claims. you can t just publish anything. as a matter of fact, the washington post, an editor wrote
be interesting to see. what knows what news organizations are vetting claims as we speak. who knows what tomorrow will hold. we know the trump campaign has tried to focus on bill clinton and bill clinton s history with women. that is what they have been going after. and wikileaks and every development from the hacked e-mails. you wonder if they will try to put the focus back there as much as they can and use the pivot toward the other things. that has been their game plan after the lewd comments. they answered with bringing former bill clinton accusers to the debate which was a shocking moment if that was their trump card so to speak. they used it. it is not clear what the next thing could be. obviously they may flick this back at the clintons and bill clinton as much as possible. the game plan is not clear to me. zach, nice to see you. thanks for getting up early.