American leadership around the world. But trump may pull off a peace deal yet. Howie a leaked audio shows a white house aide conducting background briefing. President trump pushes his Justice Department to investigate an informant being put town his campaign. Donald trump is trying to destroy this investigation. Thats whats going on here. Donald trump should be grateful for obamas fbi that spied on him. People who wrote this crap should be ashamed. Why be cant people say the fbi investigates people. Thats what we do. If we think a foreign power is involved with one of our president ial campaigns, thats our job. We sent the informant in to protect donald trump. We are stalking you as a favor. Howie the media lionized Elizabeth Holmes as a superstar and her blood testing theranos as groundbreaking. Elizabeth holmes is part of the new time 100 list just out. Howie it all came crashing down on charges of fraud. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. White house correspondents were preparin
gave it 30 seconds. nbc did two minutes. fox did the most of, a 4 1/2 minute report. before it was a trump controversy, where was the press in talking about this? jessica: 12 days later. we lost four green berets. so that s the original press fail that turned into other major press fails. howie: mediabuzz@foxnews.com. kennedy will be here when we come back. the report on bill o reilly, a story he s calling a smear.
tovak has been accused by 30 women of harassing them. a producer at nickelodeon was fired last week. howie: 21st century fox has been trying to move on from this. but this is a significant setback for fox. it s embarrassing. it s disappointing that o reilly was given a new contract under these circumstances. in the end the company did fire its biggest moneymakers. the media awash in new allegations. how the weinstein issue is how the weinstein issue is spawning a new online campaig
coming forward. you see them coming forward to share and give their voice. having prosecuted cases of sexual assault in los angeles in the district attorney s office as assistant d.a. and san francisco, we take these allegations seriously. there are serious allegations of sexual assault and misconduct. and very investigations internationally with scotland yard. howie: originally i thought it was because you had famous actresses involved like angelina jolie and gwyneth paltrow. and it goes back to david letterman who kinds of got a pass with his own staff. shell require s hollywood, you have glamorous actresses.
journalism. but as a journalist i find the notion that nearly half the people say we make stuff up is pretty depressing it s pretty rare, actually. kimberly: there are journalists who do an incredible job. so we owe them a large thank you and credit for the work they do. however, in the media people will take stories that are thinly sourced. and there is no truth to them. so he has seen that up close and personal. nowadays anybody can say they are a journalist when they are not if they can start a blog and have a cell phone and take a picture, et cetera, et cetera. howie: the president tweeting this is finally sinking through, he says the media has lost credibility. making stuff up is a serious