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Wednesday October 10th, 2007 12:50 PM by BHDC Staff  
Filed under: Journalism, Howard Kurtz

“I’m happy to talk to him,” Howard Kurtz tells Big Head DC regarding David Blum’s agitation.

Earlier: Howie Kurtz Defends Self From Plagiarism Charges

Also: New Gawker Editor Was Run Out of Washington for Affair With Married Woman

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  1. […] Howie Kurtz, Washington Post media critic and author of “Reality Shows: Inside the Last Great Television News War,” tells blog BigHeadDC that he’d be glad to meet with New York Press editor David Blum over similarities between Kurtz’s book and a 2005 afterword to Blum’s 2004 book. (Both the Kurtz and Blum books report, in similar ways, that Dan Rather threatened to take the Killian documents story that led to his dismissal from CBS to the Times if the network didn’t promote, let alone run, the piece.) Kurtz has claimed the anecdote as a scoop. Speaking to the New York Observer last night, Kurtz described himself as “a fanatic about attributing information,” but said he wouldn’t mention Blum’s book in any future editions of “Reality Show” because “since he got the information directly from [Josh] Howard, it didn’t matter that the story had already been used elsewhere.” Would Blum be open to a meeting? “It depends on the shape of the table,” he told us. […]

    posted October 10th, 2007 at 7:27 pm | Quote


  1. […] Howie Kurtz, Washington Post media critic and author of “Reality Shows: Inside the Last Great Television News War,” tells blog BigHeadDC that he’d be glad to meet with New York Press editor David Blum over similarities between Kurtz’s book and a 2005 afterword to Blum’s 2004 book. (Both the Kurtz and Blum books report, in similar ways, that Dan Rather threatened to take the Killian documents story that led to his dismissal from CBS to the Times if the network didn’t promote, let alone run, the piece.) Kurtz has claimed the anecdote as a scoop. Speaking to the New York Observer last night, Kurtz described himself as “a fanatic about attributing information,” but said he wouldn’t mention Blum’s book in any future editions of “Reality Show” because “since he got the information directly from [Josh] Howard, it didn’t matter that the story had already been used elsewhere.” Would Blum be open to a meeting? “It depends on the shape of the table,” he told us. […]

    posted October 11th, 2007 at 3:36 am | Quote


  1. […] Kurtz told Big Head DC the same thing weeks ago. Largely, people are taking his words at face value. And we bet he’s happy about that. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. email this | digg this | del.icio.us | stumble | reddit | permalink […]

    posted October 24th, 2007 at 12:49 pm | Quote

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