we can also interact after the program, at howard kurtz. melissa francis who session cnbc management once chastised her. # . >>> the press has suddenly made valerie jarrett the. >>> the blunt headline in on a -- some unnamed officials consider her role pretty toxic and regard her as a spy. joy reed raised this as a white house aid, but couldn't say what the criticism was. >> and i would be remiss about it if i didn't give you the opportunity to respond, there's been a lot of opportunities to talk about your own -- circulating around in the belt way, do you have any response to those reports? >> i guess i will tell you when you break -- >> morning joe co-host mika bra zin sky. >> he's white house senior advisor valerie jarrett on set. you look great. >> she keeps me calm each morning when joe tries to raise my blood pressure. >> mika says in an online comment, yes she and valerie jarrett are friends, but that valerie deserves credit, not attacks. do you have any. >> i expect she might do that and she acknowledges they were friends, as far as

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"mediabuzz"'s howard kurtz will be here in minutes. no more cuddling koalas after g20 meeting facing firestorm over the keystone pipeline and immigration. investigation launched into yet another crisis on a cruise ship. latest after more than 170 fall ill. and the flying doughnut. check out what airbus is up to. its patent plans to have us traveling around because even when they say it's not, it is always, always about money. melissa: here on friday i told you about cnbc role keeping dollars and cents truth from its viewers as cnbc anchor, when i pointed out that there had to be a cost to adding so many people to the insurance rolls, i was reprimanded and told i was quote, disrespecting the office of the president. that chilling behavior actively helped architects like jonathan gruber maintain what gruber calls, quote, a lack of economic understanding among american voters. the response from you, to friday's show has been overwhelming. 1.8 million of you have seen the video on my facebook page, thousands of you sent me your support. vi

i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. the republican victories piled up and the gop gets closer to winning control of the senate. some liberals held out hope for a goal line stand by the democrats. >> at the risk of being baghdad bob, i know it's tough now, but there is still a route to victory. >> is this a wave tonight? >> no. it's not close to a wave. >> but it was a republican wave. and other pendits grappled for explanations. andrea mitchell said democrats were dumb not to concentrate on the economy while the gop raised other issues. >> it was a scare tactic by the republican opponents of democratic incumbents who tried to focus on isis and ebola in the scariest most nonfactual ways to take the -- you know, the eye off -- >> where is the debate? >> -- real issues. >> the republicans on their way to winning control of the senate, it was time for some sweeping judgments. >> i think it was much less the doing of the republicans than it was the self-destruction of the democrats. >> some commentators made excuses for the

back to media b howard kurtz. >> political analysis is an art not a science. but is the art now becoming an akron anymore. >>> back in the day when i was coming races and going to a state that cover a congressional district race or a senate race or even a primary, there weren't that many polls, so a reporter who would go to a state, there might be some poll out there that you heard about, that would give you some sense of the -- some data organization you never heard of. so you go to egyvents and you watch the candidates perform and you pick up some sense of how -- you talked to the campaign workers and see the managers and so on and they would tell you stuff and you would be able to from experience you could kind of filter out the spin and pick the things that kind of made sense to you. you would get a feel for the race. and, you know, you didn't have a poll to go on and -- but now you have the real clear politics average of polls and david reuter would go knocking on doors and talk to people in a shopping mall, i think it's kind of seen as old-fashioned. >>

i'm howard kurtz. thanks for joining us. "like" our facebook page where we post original content, answer your question, post videos you don't see on this program. we're back here next sunday 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. eastern with the latest buzz. >>> i'm chris wallace. breaking today. two americans held captive in north korea return to the u.s. with this country's top spy. plus, with control of both houses of congress, are republicans headed for compromise with president obama or confrontation? >> we are heading to washington. and we are going to make them squeal! >> we have swept this nation with a compelling senate majority. >> tonight we shook up the senate. you shook up the senate. >> we'll talk with two members of the wave of new republican senators.

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heather: howard kurtz is the host of "media buzz" every weekend here on the fox news channel and also a fox news media analyst. boy, when i heard that last night, my jaw dropped. do you believe the media covered this responsibly, the entire story? >> in a word, no. the media set a narrative from the outset based on fragmentary evidence -- heather: well, there was a whole lot of speculation. >> some eyewitnesses changed their stories. so many things turned out to be wrong. an unarmed young black man shot by an overzealous cop. in fairness, officer wilson, the department were not putting out his side, so it was a one-sided narrative, but we should have been more cautious, more responsible. heather: it seemed like some networks really wanted to draw parallels between this and the trayvon martin story down in florida which, by the way, rated well for them. >> oh, yeah. this was the hot story when it happened, and i think also, obviously, the rioting that broke out and the presence of tv cameras which i think enflamed and attracted outside agitators. all of this added up to turning into a

now back to "media buzz" and howard kurtz. >> bill cosby's stocks going lower this week. colleges cutting their ties to him and a former nbc employee telling the "today" show and saying he sent thousands of dollars to his pals. there were apologies from some journalists who have written about cosby. joining us now, joe concha and bill web. david karr in his "new york times" column recalls interviewing cosby for the airline magazine "hemispheres" not asking him about the allegations. he said my job was to tell the truth about the guy. i should not have let him bralths on about his new book. >> kudos to david karr. he was under no pressure whatsoever to write the column dedicated 2,000 words to the top of basically saying i'm wrong, i should have addressed this sooner. it wasn't done in a tweet under 140 characters, it wasn't a throw away line in some other column. david karr said he was wrong and he was under no duress to do so. he called out fellow writers, as well, such as mark whitacre saying, hey, you're in the same book as me. you should have covered this. >> i agree

joining me now with more from washington, howard kurtz, the host of media buzz, which airs sundays at 11:00 a.m. eastern right here on fox news. howard, explain to me how hillary and bill clinton for that married campaign. turn this around as a win? how? >> i'm trying to wrap my head around this. i mean, this was a huge depressing, traumatic gut wrenching defeat traumatic, gut wrenching defeat for democrats, hillary, as you say, bill, campaigning. some saying this is going to help her. wow, i didn't know her spin machine was that good. >> what could it be? could it be they're saying now she will not look like the obama, she's the anti-obama coming in riding on the horse saying we tried that for a while, now try a clinton instead of obama. >> well, there's a valid point in some taking this tact. it will be easier for hillary clinton to run against a republican senate and house rather than having to dance around harry reid if the democrats had somehow retained control. but what's left out of this equation, eric, is that she is now inextricably tied to an obama administration that was ju

joining me now with reaction, media expert and fox news media analyst howard kurtz. howard, thanks for joining us. does my story surprise you? >> only the fact that it was so blatant that you were called in and told you're disrespect the president. we're supposed to aggressively cover policy debates like obamacare. by the pages of "the new york times," and newspapers still have not covered this and, we're on day five of what we call here, gruber-gate and there is still a partial blackout. cbs and "washington post" caught up realized this is a real story. but the rest of them not so much. melissa: why do you think that is? i remember telling people about this at the time, that i was told, i was quieted saying you are disrespecting the office of the president. why do you think media outlets don't want to cover this? are they true believers? do they think their viewers don't want to hear it? what is it? >> i'm not somebody who runs around crying bias in a crowded theater but there is really no other explanation. sometimes, television, limited time on broadcast networks

fox n with howard kurtz begins right now. >> on the buzz meter this sunday, the architect of obama care caught on tape saying that -- it's ignored for days by the broadcast networks, by the "new york times" and much of the main stream media. what gives? >> you don't really get the news if it goes against the liberal orthodox, and this is proof, this is absolute prove. >>> and the anchor who said cnbc silenced her when she dared challenge the silencing of obama care. >> i was called

howard kurtz is a host of media buzz every sunday morning on the fox news channel. example one would be eddy gillispie. he conceded that a short while ago. all of the polls had them ten points apart. but it was close. how did they get it so wrong? >> as the polls being gospel and in a midterm, those polls fluxate and sometimes they are flat wrong and in the virginia race. ed gillispie. he couldn't get on the national radar. and same thing in the maryland governor's race where no one that thee though brown was a shoe in and instead larry hogan won by five points. they slipped up here. >> you think there is a bias that is in the results when the reporters look at them and write about them? >> i think some places may have felt it would not be a woip out for the democrats and if mishil nun and kay haggin in north carolina could hang on to the narrow leads and the democrats, it would not be as bad as it turned out to be. but if you took those polls away and in the journalist would talk to more people and not base their analysis on what those numbers show, we would have h

fox news media analyst and host of fox news media buzz howard kurtz tells us they may have found someone. >> valerie jarrett wields enormous influence inside the white house. during the 2012 campaign, the new republican says other officials were stunned when she said, mr. president, i don't understand how you're not getting 85% of the vote. >> but you were the most powerful woman in washington, and you're like nancy reagan, but with more power. what do you think of that? >> you know what? i think people say all kinds of things about me. those are some of the more flattering things. >> reporter: but in the wake of the democrats midterm debacle -- the new republic credits her with offering candid advice, the magazine quotes a former administration official as calling her role pretty toxic saying other aides viewed her as a spy and a political column demands, fire valerie jarrett. but she has her allies, such as mika brzenzinski. >> a little applause for mika. not of course is she my dear friend, but she keeps me calm each morning when joe tries to raise my blood pressure. >> yes, they're f

i'm howard kurtz and this is a special edition of media buzz. there are plenty of tight as a tick races in the battle for control of the senate. that means lots of anchors and correspondents, some of them standing in front of a color coded mess. >> president obama already battling with the republicans. will he soon face a republican senate? >> when it's all said and done, we could be looking at a very different balance of power in this country. if the election was held today, republicans are poised to pick up alaska, montana, south dakota, iowa. >> the senate hinges on eight or nine senate races that are in a dead heat. >> west virginia looks comfortable for republicans. so, too, does south dakota and montana. now you're at 48. >> joining us here in new york to examine the coverage in this home stretch, andrea contera. julie and amy. all right, andrea, what explains this deep seeded genetic urge to predict north carolina or new hampshire or all these other races when no one really knows was going to happen? >> we love competition. it's why we lo

stay with fox news media buzz with howard kurtz begins right now. >> on the buzz meter this sunday, the architect of obama care caught on tape saying that -- it's ignored for days by the broadcast networks, by the "new york times" and much of the main stream media. what gives? >> you don't really get the news if it goes against the liberal orthodox, and this is proof, this is absolute prove. >>> and the anchor who said cnbc silenced her when she dared challenge the silencing of obama care. >> i was called

tonight's fox news media analysis and host of fox's media buzz howard kurtz looks into whether that was justified. >> it seems to me that the media narrative took a turn almost immediately when darren wilson shot michael brown. let's take a look at that. >> reporter: the media narrative took hold almost immediatedly after darren wilson shot michael brown, that an unarmed black man was likely murdered by an overzealous white cop. and last night the st. louis county prosecutor sing uld out the wall to wall coverage. >> the most significant challenge encountered in this investigation is the 24-hour news cycle and it's insatiable appetite to find something, anything to talk about. >> as he got closer, he fired one more shot. that shot struck my friend in the back. >> he turned around, faced the a officer, put his hands up and the officer continued to shoot him until he goes down to the gruchbd. >> reporter: and while some commentators cautioned against rushing to judgment, some of them couldn't help themselves. >> these two witnesses described what seems to be a cold-blooded murder. >> repo

i will back with the fox report and now back to "media buzz," with howard kurtz. >> more women have accused bill cosby of salt and a former employee said he spent thousands to his female pals and apologies from some who have written about cosby. we have our reporter david webb with sirius and joe, who recalled interviewing we cosby not asking him of the allegations and he says, my job as a journalist was to turn down the assignment if i was not going to do the work and tell the truth i should not let him go on about the new book at time. >> kudos because he is under no pressure to write the column he did on november 24, dead indicating 2000 words saying, i'm wrong, i should have addressed this sooner, it wasn't done in a tweet and under 140 characters or a throw away line in another column, but >> david: he was wrong and he was under month duress. no one pressed him to write that and he called out fellow writers saying, you are in the same boat, mark whittaker and whittaker wrote a biography about cosby. >> now, david, i agree that karr called himself outside and former newsweek editor wrot

i'm howard kurtz. thanks for joining us. "like" our facebook page where we post original content, answer your question, post videos you don't see on this program. we're back here next sunday 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. eastern with the latest buzz. >>> i'm chris wallace. breaking today. two americans held captive in north korea return to the u.s. with this country's top spy. plus, with control of both houses of congress, are republicans headed for compromise with president obama or confrontation? >> we are heading to washington. and we are going to make them squeal! >> we have swept this nation with a compelling senate majority. >> tonight we shook up the senate. you shook up the senate. >> we'll talk with two members of the wave of new republican senators. shelley moore capito and cory gardner of colorado. then after that white house lunch, did the power shift in washington end the partisan gridlock? >> we do have an obligation to work together on issues where we can agree. i think we have a duty to do that. >> i would enjoy having

joining us is howard kurtz. let's go through this piece by piece. one of the charges was criticizing valley jarrett is sexist. that she is being attacked because she is spa woman. >> there is not syllable of sexism in any of these charges. this is being led b by msnbc. lots of male officials in various administrations have been the target of harsh criticism. we can debate whether the criticism is fair but there is no need to play the gender card. bill: you think of don reagan, both of whom were said to be isolating the president. whether that criticism was warranted we don't know. i fail to see how it's sexist. i think it undermines the power of her position to point to that in many ways. but the next question becomes the media pile-on. this has been out in the mix for a long time. why now? why are we getting this from all these publications? >> because the democrats do the creamed. when a politician is in trouble you call for people to be fired. you call for scalps. calling valerie jarrett the scapegoat-in-chief. she has been a lightning rod for a

let's bring in howard kurtz. >> you know, republicans have opened a lead in some of these tight senate contests. but in georgia, it's very tight, and the air wars could prove decisive. let's take a look. georgia's democratic senate candidate michelle nunn is running against david perdue and trying to use his business background against him. a pollster tested his ad with a dial group. republicans in red, democrats in green. >> newspapers are broken the story about david perdue. in a sworn deposition, per due was asked can you describe your experience with outsourcing? he responded, yeah, i spent most of my career doing that, to places like china and mexico. david perdue, he's not for you. >> the ad accurately quotes a 2005 deposition involving a textile company that perdue once ran and later shut down. perdue acknowledged shifting production oversees at a number of companies. democrats gave had ad a top score. republicans, just 48. >> michelle has the best ad of this entire election cycle by accusing and using david perdue's words against him. she now took the most powerful economic att