CBS Marketwatch’s Jon Friedman profiles super-media-critic Howard Kurtz, but doesn’t push him very hard on his unique arrangement with CNN. Kurtz says he “can’t scrutinize the rest of the media world without applying the same standards” to the Post and CNN, but Friedman makes no other mention of Kurtz’s possible conflict of interest. How many CNNers believe it is at best awkward, and at worst unethical? “He’s our insurance policy,” one CNNer remarked to me earlier this week…
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