Ben Smith Vs. Howie Kurtz: The War Begins

The fight begins anew between old media and new. In one of his first acts in his newly launched capacity as a political and media blogger, Politico‘s Ben Smith calls out The Daily Beast/Newsweek Washington Bureau Chief Howard Kurtz for self-pimping. Howie, meanwhile, explains what the rest of the Twitterverse does ad nauseum — that RT’s do not equal endorsements. Blah blah and more blah.