Are americans killed by gun violence every day in many places around this country that don t get the the same coverage. it s an interesting question. howie: that is a fair point. i do think there s so much public interest because it s one of the most famous actors in the country tragically killed somebody who he said was his friend. thank sow much for stopping thank you so of much for stopping by. we made a lot of news last week when neil cavuto with multiple health problems pleaded with people to get vaccinated in his first interview here after contracting covid. he even drew praise from some competitors at rival cable networks along with harshly negative e-mails that he had had fun reading on the air. his message is really important which is why it generated so many headlines. that s it for this edition of media buzz. i m howard kurtz. we hope you ll like our facebook page. you can post your comments. we can continue the conversation on twitter as well. check out my podcast, media
Just a tragic incident all the way around but an incredible story. howie: i don t want to lose sight of the fact that it is such a heart breaking tragedy and the 42-year-old cinematographer whos was killed who he said was his friend, halyna hutchins, and let me go to marie with the time we have left, does all the media finger pointing there should be journalistic investigations of this and there are, takes the spotlight off of the woman who tragically lost her life. i think some outlets have been trying to really keep that spotlight on her, while being sensitive to a family that is in mourning. i think it s gotten especially the alec baldwin piece of this so much media attention this week when a number of important stories that maybe aren t as sensational or politicized haven t been. i think when we on tv, those of us in the media look at what stories we put on television as news, there has been criticism that this has gotten so much attention, particularly the alec baldwin piece o
Of the democratic party. so to completely forget about him right now seems like an oversight and the comeback is real. i mean, like i said, he has $18 million to be influential. so he is an influential player in politics the and just because he has fallen, he s he s not letting himself stay down for too long. howie: he s entitled to the resumption of innocence if this presumption of innocence if it goes to a courtroom. he called the sheriff who brought the charge a cowboy sheriff who is playing politics. he said he doesn t know how it leaked. there are questions of new york and albany politics swirling around a this. thank you for a very good conversation, tara palmeri and emily jachinsky. up next, the press touted a big budget deal for president biden before he went to europe but it quickly fell apart.
Editorial, he yet got roundly denounced. i side with the wall street journal, saying if he s running for president potentially in 2024, he s a former president, it s pretty foolish to deny him the opportunity to have his say in an op-ed. and they didn t just allow him to have his say. they came back and not only did they criticize the critics who didn t want them to run the op-ed, they debunked what trump was arguing thoroughly in the article that they wrote following trump s op-ed. i think that covered it in a responsible way. and even if they hadn t done so, trump e-mail blasts his feelings on a daily basis to us in the media so we hear from him all the time. i think the journal made an excellent case. the last paragraph was the most part of the argument. it s hard to accept criticism for trump s argument when the media spent three years with the russian collusion hoax running daily. howie: going to get to that in
Schools that took place over transgender bathrooms and facilities and pronouns. republicans were he responding to the issue of books. they were he responding to them and that was an issue that the left was trying to change. republicans are responding to it. they re leaning into it, that s true. howie: do you think the media on the right, some of them, promote the culture war battles and don t liberal media outlets pup. back pretty punch back pretty hard? they do. i think the thing about the culture wars, we say they re background noise but they create feelings among americans, feeling like culture is changing for some people, others wanting it to change. it has a lot of impact on americans day to he day in their lives, it becomes policy. culture eventually becomes policy. i think to ignore the culture war, the resistance to change is to ignore what would actually become policy and what is already becoming policy. so as journalists we do have to