Many of those who guest hosted had no TV experience, and commentators like Roland Martin noticed that the lineup of guest hosts were also awfully white. I wound up defending why media spent so much time talking about Whitney Houston’s death, talking about the Republican National Convention coming to Tampa and asking why MSNBC was giving Al Sharpton a primetime show when it hadn’t given such an opportunity to a Black journalist.Īfter Kurtz left the show and moved to Fox News in 2013, CNN had a succession of media critics guest host Reliable Sources, implying it might be a tryout of sorts (I always had a hunch Brian Stelter had the gig in the bag and they were just filling time until he could take the job). Former host Howie Kurtz would invite me on, starting about a dozen years ago, especially when he wanted to talk about pop culture. Surprisingly, I have had a long connection with the show.
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When I heard CNN was canceling its 30-year-old media analysis show Reliable Sources – its oldest series and one of its highest rated weekend shows – I had a lot of feelings. What I learned guest hosting Reliable Sources on CNN and the dangers of false equivalence
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