too much room to sent the terms of debate. the first nine months he grunted about a dozen interviews. trump did more than 50 in the same time and barack obama or than 100. now, we get to the papers real gripe about biden, he s not set for interviews with the associated press, new york times , reuters, washington post, wall street journal or usa today , how day how dare he. biden doesn t stir things up on his twitter feed and the conventional wisdom is that his aides don t want the boss wandering off script or making mistakes. whether that is true or not his low-key approach , you know what dealing with the press is part of the job. i m howard kurtz and this is media buzz . howard: ahead, kyle rittenhouse rips the media s sickening coverage of his trial we will talk to brian kiilmeade about that and abc jonathan karl on his interview with trump about the last year of his presidency. and the media complains about jen psaki says president biden takes more questions than
you. i m in for eric shawn. travel restrictions on eight african countries are set to take effect in the u.s. tomorrow, president biden announcing the move in an effort to prevent the variant from reaching our showers. the cdc says they haven t received confirmed reports of omicron cases in the u.s. but this morning the director of the national institutes of health saying this is about the president s move. given the current circumstance out of an abundance of caution, seeing this is the most serious new variant we ve seen in several months it made sense for us at least for a temporary measure. arthel: we have fox team coverage on this. correspondent jacqui heinrich is traveling with president biden in mass chew at the time. we re going to massachusetts. we re going to go to jonathan first. reporter: germany and the u.k. are reporting cases of the omicron variant. israel has approved a plan to bar entry to foreign nationals and require its own citizens to quarantine aft
and the media are highly receptive to her atasks after years of frustration in conservative and liberal media circles over bias, misinformation, the spread of hate and anger, the effects of instagram on teenage girls and years of zuckerberg apologieses and belated promises to do better. here s the thing. these aren t just her opinions. it s the tens of thousands of internal documents, proving that the facebook brass is fully aware of its increasingly toxic impact and hasn t done much about it that provides the story s power. and the challenge for pundits and politicians alike is to keep after perhaps the world s most powerful media company. i m howard kurtz and this is media buzz. howie: the story kicked into overdrive when the facebook whistleblower revealed her identity to cbs scott pelley. the version of facebook that s with us today is tearing society apart and causing ethnic violence around the world. howie: her testimony drew praise from republican and democratic s
palin political ap map that the gunman never even saw. but when a liberal bernie sanders supporter wounded steve scalise and others five years ago at a congressional republican baseball practice, the media didn t blame left-wing philosophy, and they shouldn t have is. yet after mostly black shoppers with were gunned down in buffalo, people who don t like this network unleashed this constant barrage. it s partially fox s fault. it s not even a new pretext, a new justification for violent, racist terrorism. it has long been so. it is right now being newly-popularized by the biggest fans in conservative media. those conspiracies pushed by a former president, house republican leaders, social media monopolies and a powerful cable news network. this vision of the country belonging to some americans, white americans, right, is only going on the right. and you can hear it on any given night on fox news. howard: a chief target has been tucker carlson. his comments are, of course