It’s impossible to keep up with our hopeless news media’s dishonesty and incompetence.

My five minutes of watching Fox News today (I have added PBS to Fox News, MSNBC and CNN as my “five minutes a day” sampling chores) yielded this inexcusable botch by Fox News “media watchdog” Howard Kurtz:

Exiting a discussion of the McDonald’s flap, Kurtz quickly said, “A freind of Harris came forward and said that she worked with Harris at McDonalds, but moving on….”

That’s completely false. That “friend” (she’ works’s employed bythe Harris campaign) did not work with Harris at McDonald’s and only said that Harris’s mother, who has been dead for 15 years, told her that Harris worked at McDonald’s. That’s double hearsay even if it’s true. X says that Y said that Z did something she didn’t actually see her do. Such testimony proves nothing, but Kurtz, because he’s sloppy or lazy or has a bad staff, misinformed his audience that the woman worked with Harris at the still unidentified McDonalds.

Worse, he’s supposed to report on news media ethics, and then, as a national TV reporter, gives out wrong information.

Fox News should trade Kurtz back to CNN for Jake Tapper and a box of Crackerjacks.

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