and i would just say you don't have to spend a ton of money. you can get these vitamins at the drugstore. that's going to do it for us. >> that's "housecall." media buzz with howard kurtz comes up here on the fox news channel right now. >> on the buzz beater this sunday, the racially charged murder case that was utterly inflamed by cable news is back in the media spotlight. george zimmerman returns to television after the trayvon martin verdict. and cnn gets hammered online for giving him a platform. >> do you regret that night? do you have regrets about it? >> certainly i've -- think about that night. i think i -- my life would be tremendously easier if i had stayed home. >> and another cnn anchor explodes over the mistrial of michael dunn on a murder charge for killing an african-american teen. in this case, over the playing of loud music. why does television turn these cases into national melodramas

and are some commentators going too far? everyone and his brother seems to be binge watching the entire season of "house of cards." >> it's not beginning the story that i fear. it's not knowing how it will end. everyone is fair game now, including me. >> but does the netflix really deserve all this great press? plus, do business news channels help make smart investments or are financial pundits punch their own? we'll have maria bartiromo. i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. george zimmerman was back on television this week, refusing to express much in the way of regret for the killing of trayvon martin. he spoke to univision and to cnn's chris cuomo. >> what do you want to say about

people who believe you went out that night as a vigilante and found it and bailed yourself out? >> i don't focus on them. i deal with their hatred by loving my supporters more. >> cnn got pounded, particularly by some african-americans, for giving george zimmerman a platform. this after a study from m.i.t. that said cable news inflamed the situation. joining us now, lauren ashburn, rick gronell and kelly goff, social correspondent. lauren, should chris cuomo and cnn have done that interview with george zimmerman? >> absolutely. it is news worthy. the definition of news worthy is it's interesting, it's topical to the general public and it warrants coverage. not to mention the fact that his second degree murder trial now has a similar -- there was a similar trial in florida that also brought up race and also

self-defense. and so it is news worthy to go back. chris cuomo did an excellent job in saying to him, do you regret killing trayvon martin? he didn't get a good answer and it went at it a number of different ways. he was aggressive. and i talked to cuomo and he said he wanted to keep the story alive, demystify zimmerman and show how florida's legal system bailed him out. but a lot of people said i am so sick of zimmerman, he should just go away and not be in front of tv cameras. >> i think the big issue here was there's pending liability for george zimmerman. he couldn't answer these questions. you can't be honest and talk right now about how he was feeling on that day. i think it's a phony criteria to pretend like he should be. he's basically speaking to eric holder on cnn. there's still a possible doj investigation. there's a lot at stake for george zimmerman. the idea that the media would

hold him to this account at this point to be completely clean, i think, is ridiculous. >> but that's news worthy, rike, right? >> of course it's news worthy. but know your liability at this point. >> do you have a problem with three different networks giving zimmerman a platform at this particular point? a lot of people don't think it's news worthy. >> one thing that got lost is the coverage is -- i have a friend who wrote information who agrees this is giving zimmerman too much of a platform. castro has been interviewed. look at all the people in history who we couldn't stand. >> but the problem with it is that he came out afterward, right, and he had a -- do we have the quote? >> yeah. let me put the graphic up and have you respond because you nicely set me up for the next

question. he says, i am not impartial on this. i believe zimmerman got away with murder aided and abetted by a justice system that does not have equal regard for the lives of black and minority youth. maybe i wanted to look into the eyes of a killer and see if i could find remorse. i found none. >> that's not fair. he can't be honest. >> my knee jerk reaction was this guy shouldn't be doing this interview at all if he has that opinion. but then i went on to read the article where he talk bes this and this quote popped out at me. i cannot accept that an african-american journalist is any less capable of conducting himself and composure of what the job demands, regardless of my personal sentiment. to me, that's what a journalist is supposed to be doing. >> regardless of the race issue of the interviewer, i just think that it's not fair to be able to

hold george zimmerman to a standard at this point with the doj investigation hanging over him. if you look at the univision interview, george zimmerman is half hispanic. in spanish, he does a very good job of articulating what some would want to hear, remorseful words. >> they've done a ton of studies that is have shown when doctors commit can malpractice and make a big error, one of the things that decreases a lawsuit is when they apologize. there's a fear in our culture that if you admit wrongdoing, that you're done for. actually the opposite tends to be true. >> the doj is looking at a civil rights case. >> he cannot do it. >> i want to get off zimmerman and bring us back to media. i want to talk more about this m.i.t. study. which found -- and a lot of people forget this -- when trayvon martin was first killed, this wasn't much of a story in florida for a couple of weeks. then it was pushed out by some activists.

m.i.t. says president obama was asked about it and television says cable news in particular really drove this, al sharpton was singled out because he was a spokesman and crusader for the martin family and heraldo rivera who made that remark about the hoodie was as responsible for his death as zimmerman. so my question is, what is it about these rationally charged case that's become so addictive for cable news? >> well, i think because we're a country that has an african-american president i assume that would end some of the bickering over race. and i think because we have a black president, a lot of people thought it would heal certain wounds, that people find themselves sort of at a loss to define race and racism in ways we thought used to be clear cut. that's why we end up having this conversation. >> but some of this predates obama. it feels like maybe you're letting cable news off the hick. it is playing an inflammatory role here, is there not?

>> i think there's 24 hours of content that needs to be pushed out over cable. so you're looking for a lot more conte content. but i think it has nothing to do with barack obama. i mean, barack obama actually inflamed the problem of the george zimmerman case by talking about it. >> he was asked about it. is he not sfoefd to answer? >> yeah pep doesn't answer a lot. that would be one really good idea. >> why could he not answer the question about that trial? >> the point here is that it was a very local news story until barack obama inflamed it. >> no, no. >> no. >> to the point of the president was asked. but let me turn to this other case, the michael dunn verdict, and, of course, you mentioned this earlier, lauren, a shooting case with jordan davis playing loud music on the car. michael dunn was convicted on some counts, but there was a mistrial on one count. don lemon, here is how he

reacted. take a look. >> i am absolutely pissed because it's none of your business. >> it's absolutely ridiculous. i think there needs to be a mind your business law that goes along with the stand your ground law. >> this is an anchor who set aside all measure of objectivity and he acted on air as judge, jury and executioner, condemning the defendant as guilty saying it was an open-and-shut case. >> my goodness. >> old, white guys trying to claw their way back from obscurity by attacking other people who speak out against this happen this? >> young lady. >> i don't think it's about whether or not someone is attacking him. i think it is about the question of what is a journalist. and is a journalist an objective asker of questions, as chris cuomo was, or is he a political commentator, which is what we're seeing with don lemon. he said at one point, if you have kids in the room, you may

want to keep them out. he said if this turns out to be a hung jury, i'm just saying there will be an outrage and i will be one of those people. that is not someone who is trying to just cover a story. >> but he is given the african-american perspective on the dunn case. fair or unfair for him to react personally? >> i think don lemon has been moving into activism advocatety for a little while. it's not a bad thing. i think he has to own it. if you're going to be an opinion journalist, you should not pretend to be a journalist. my problem is if this was just going to be his opinion, he should bring up the fact that there was a black juror on the dunn case that said race had nothing to do with this. so i tend to agree with greg jarrett here is that you have a delicate responsibility when it comes to legal issues to be very careful if you were not in the room for the entire time.

>> did craig criticize don when he criticized bill o'reiley on air? walter cronkite began to cry when he announce d assassinatio. i don't have a problem with the fact that journalists are emotional creatures and may express emotion on occasion -- >> what about this question of second-guess ago jury verdict because somebody may appear guilty to all of us, but the jury has to decide whether or not the facts in the case live up to the legal standard. >> but this goes back to your original question of where the media's place is in this. cheryl fole said we're becoming a country that wants to have pop race conversation bes paula deen, santa. so we want to have arguments about these trials and about black santa. >> interesting point. send me a tweet about our show. we'll read some of them at the end of the program.

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the fcc touched off a storm of criticism with a plan to mettle into tv news rooms. the commission said it wanted to examine the process by which stories are selected. each station's news philosophy and perceived station bias. the commission backed off late friday afternoon saying it wouldn't ask such questions until its study was redesigned. that means that it is dead as a door nail. but how did this get so far and

why did some people think this was a good idea? >> well, you know, it's creating a phony academic study to support a liberal mainstream media bias. if you look at the two universities they picked, you couldn't be more entrenched in the liberal bias. you have annenberg. i used to teach there. i know that institution. it is steeped in the liberal bi bias. and the university of wisconsin at madison. this was a way to get the a.m. academia world to put a stamp of approval on our liberal world view and this is what you all should be doing. >> the sensible reason here was to aid diversity and make sure eight critical areas of diversity were being covered. to me, i've been out front in this. i think the fcc has no business in news content. >> from the get-go, diversity should be, so i can save them all the money they were going to spend trying to figure that out. but the other thing is, in

theory, i'd like to see us figure out what's going wrong in news rooms because i think there is something going wrong because the news should be better. i don't know anyone that's okay with the direction it's been heading in the last couple of years. i think my friend here could run a conspiracy blog because i certainly didn't read this and go oh, my gosh, the university of wisconsin is trying to pull some liberal wool over our eyes. >> let's talk about diversity. >> i don't know where they stand so i don't know if they agree with him or not. >> i can assure you that the university of wisconsin adamant son is a liberal institution. i'm all for diversity. the news rooms are desperate for diversity of opinion, howie. >> i am not going to argue with that. i also don't want the governor as the arbiter of those opinions. >> take a look at what happened during watergate. nixon's fcc basically harassed "the washington post" and said it was going to investigate two of its tv stations. >> to challenge elections.

and the fcc has that power, yet while there seems to be a consensus at this table that that was not the way to go and the fcc ought to mind its business when it comes to the business of journalism, not whether a station is living up to its public interest obligations, but how it gathers the news, i haven't seen anything on this all week in the "new york times," the ap, nightly news cast. >> he came out and he was on "fox & friends," the fcc commissioner came out in the "wall street journal" sxtsdz this is ridiculous, we shouldn't be doing this. he came on "fox & friends" and said we shouldn't do this. >> i'd like to see about getting the kardashians off the air and -- >> they're unwilling to use the heavy hand of the government. >> i'm pro kardashian. >> you are not. >> okay. but the reason -- i wonder, is it because the criticism is coming from the right and the "new york times" and others say this is a conservative hobby horse? >> let me guarantee you, howie, that if this was the bush fcc

that did this, it would be front page of the "new york times" and every single reporter at the "new york times" would be trying to find a way to put it into their stories on any issue, including the ukraine. >> and i cannot argue with that. i think it was a big mistake by much of the mainstream media, even though this -- it said now, but it died because of the media pressure under criticism. >> that's free press. >> a small victory for free press. kelly, thanks very much for coming by this sunday. up next, "house of cards" is so popular, even real anchors are dying to get on it. but how much hours of kevin spacey can you take at once? [ male announcer ] frequent heartburn? the choice is yours. chalky... not chalky. temporary... 24 hour. lots of tablets... one pill. you decide. prevent acid with prevacid 24hr. this is the creamy chicken corn chowder.

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real tv anchors have been lining up to make cameo appearances. >> replacing democracy with tyranny. >> what we've come to expect. >> but why is the series you have to download from netflix generating so much chatter? joining us now is david zurich, television and media critic for the baltimore sun. this is a show where the whole second season has been dumped out there. obviously, not on everybody has seen all 13 episodes. >> the new netflix model, dumping all 13 episodes and in this case on a valentine's day. i want to spoil it for people. i actually saw the first four episodes on february 4th in a screening. then i saw the rest on the 14th. and i still don't feel comfortable talking about any plot developments. i really don't. >> but the buzz seems to be as much about the bin ge viewings, you like it, some other critics

don't, what do you make of that? >> i think that's the epic change that's being brought in. it's in lifestyle. it's in how we receive media. that's what's really important in one well, you have the business model, which is a big deal. but the lifestyle portion of this, because we have the technology and netflix has the business model in how to do it, people, it's changing way they watch tv. howie, this goes back to 1948 when prime time network television started. and somebody in rockefeller center said we're going to give you one episode a week. now that's blown up. >> we all grew up on that. but now netflix says 16% of its 30 million subscribers have watched at least one episode on this first weekend. that's impressive. with all the things i read about this, is this as big in georgia as it is in georgetown? >> nothing is as big in georgia as it is in georgetown. the media is in georgetown,

absolutely. >> so why does this show get so much press? is it because the media elite all love it? is it because it's become a stand-in for people? >> i think that's part of it. it's got politics and it's got media. but the other reason, let's not be totally cynical. the other reason, this is outstanding drama. kevin spacey is superb in this lead role and he's at the top of his game. this is really a great compelling narrative. and howie, you know, at a time when america is sick to death of washington and hates the grid rock and hates the dealing, this exposes it. this shows it to them. so it's really satisfying in a psychological sense for citizens who feel dispossessed by the self-interested people in washington. >> but you're not disputing my theory that the media and political lead are generating a lot of the chatter because this is where they live, this is what they love. >> oh, of course. this is the land of narcisism.

of course it's an unbelievable production. >> the "tonight show," jimmy fallon is succeeding jay leno this week. let's take a look tae brief clip from one of his shows. >> thanks to all the fans for their support. to my buddy who said i'd never be the host of "the tonight show," and you know who you are, you owe me a hundred bucks, buddy. >> great. that's great. >> so fallon had a smooth transition. he seems to be a likable guy. but he's a lot less political, for example, than jay leno. he doesn't talk about politics as much in his monologue. and a lot of people feel when late night comics are going relatively easy on president obama, that this is a move away from the premier franchise of late night. >> i always thought jay leno did political comedy like bob hope did political comedy. it was political, i agree.

but it was gentle in a way. i mean, really -- >> but he hit both sides. >> yeah, he hit both sides. honestly, i don't see this move in a political context. although it could well develop that way. this is, in that sense, a less political comedy. i don't think it. i think it's a really smart move by nbc. look, it always seems crazy when you fire the guy who is number one. >> yeah. i haven't gotten past that. but fallon, to his credit, seems very earnest. he's very likable, as i said. but he's taking over a franchise that by definition is shrinking in part because people are watching netflix and it's not just nbc. quick thought on that. >> it's absolutely true. but i think going to bring some new viewers to the table, viewers that demographically are going to be good for nbc. and surprisingly, it's because of his music. he has an original talent and take on pop music. you know what? i'm one of them. i wouldn't stay up to watch it.

i'll watch it the next morning on video. i'll watch him to see if he has a musical guest and he does one of his paridy or musical performances. >> that's my headline, he might even stay up late. thank you. donald trump seems to be having a fine time with kay coppins calling him the biggest -- in the world. but when he's portrayed as flirting with the presidential run, he ripped them on twitter. doesn't understand my sarcasm when talking about him and his wife wrote a foolish and boring trump hit. and that's not all. he told sam nunberg, you're fired. he said nunberg talked him into doing this. and i said to sam, if this guy writes a fair story, that's fine. but if he writes a wise guy story, you'll be fired. tuppins, i think i met him once

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>> hi, everybody. i'm jamie colby. keeping an eye on ukraine because it's not really clear who is in charge there. parliament has appointed a new leader, but an aid to the ousted president said he is not leaving the country, will continue to fulfill his presidential duties. still, he's tried to leave the country. meanwhile, large crowds of protesters are filling independence square in kiev, perhaps digging in for a long time. back here at home, terrible

tragedy on long island. carbon monoxide being blamed for the death of a restaurant manager at a shopping mall in huntington just outside new york city. there were more than two dozen people rushed to the hospital last night. the mall was quickly evacuated and investigators say it may have been a leak of the heating system. i'm jamie colby and i'll be back at the top of the hours for a brand new hour of america's news headquarters. back to media buzz. it can be hard for viewers to make sense of the fast moving coverage especially when many guests seem to be pushing their favorite stocks. >> you want to own the fracking industry, you want to observe anybody that goes into the production of these things. you want to own sand, you want to own pipe. >> i wouldn't buy it. >> recommend level three because of the incredible numbers. it was instant, though. but you know what? this company is back.

>> i sat down in new york with maria bartiromo who launches her daily program opening bell tomorrow from 9:00 to 1 1:00 eastern on the fox business network. maria bartiromo, welcome. >> hi, howie. good to see you. >> welcome to fox. if you're an average viewer that doesn't know that much about the markets is that all the talk about stocks, beating expectations can be hard to follow. is that a fair criticism? >> you know, i think it is. i think that what has happened in business information is particularly on television is a lot of on short-termism. and it's unfortunate because that's not the way to invest. a knee jerk reaction and fast decisions. but, you know, when i first got into the business 25 years ago, it was all about the markets. first it was the individual investor explosion and people wanting to be armed with information 24/7. then it was globalization and the dotcom boom and bust. all of these different cycles

were focused on the market and what's going on in the stock market now. >> and there you are as a floor reporter. >> that's right. things have changed quite a bit. i think today viewers want a much broader, deeper perspective of where their money is and what it's doing over the long-term. >> you say they don't want short-termism, but i remember when i first started watching regularly in the 90s, when we first met .even know, i see a lot of fund managers and analyst types come on, and i often have the feeling they're pushing stocks that they have positions in or maybe talking down stocks that they're shot on and it makes me weary of some of that advice. >> well, i mean, people will tend to talk about things they like and talk about things that they're invested in. that doesn't necessarily bother me as much as the short-termism. i think today viewers are smarter than they ever have been before. people understand that the onus is on them to get armed with as much information as possible and then make your decisions. you can't trust anybody and everybody.

you have to take pieces of information and make your own decisions about investing. so it doesn't bother me analysts may come on and say we have a buy rating on this and this is why i like it. they have a buy rating. >> they need to come with a consumer warning. but now the stars, i guess the big get in your world and this world are obviously these corporate chieftains, i think you've interviewed everyone on the planet, how important is it whether it's jeff besoz or jamie dimon, how important is television exposure for these ceos? >> i think it's important. i think it's still as important as it ever was. because today, investors are scrutinizing everything. they want to know their customer. they want to know who they're investing in. so having the ceo or the chairman or even ben bernanke come out and basically say, here is why we did all that qe, and here is why we've been stimulating the economy gives an investor more perspective, nor analysis to make their own decision. so i think it is very important for ceos, chairman, allocators of capital to come out and

explain what's behind their strategy. i think it's helpful. i think, you know, when you see someone on air or on an interview and you know that person repeatedly is not answering the question and repeatedly is looking like something has gone awry or something is not right, well, guess what? it probably isn't. you know, transparency is good. >> you spent 20 years at cnn. you grew up there. >> well, i was at cnn for five years and krnz for 20 years. >> excuse me, i meant to say cnbc. and you helped build that channel. it was a bigger audience. was it a hard decision to leave? >> it was hard. i had the most unbelievable 20 years of my life at cnbc and i loved it. i'm proud of being a builder, helping to build the network, building up the brand globally. but i think after 20 years, i was looking at the next 20 and i was deciding what's best for me. and i realized that today i

think people are looking for broader terminal sis, longer interviews n, less short-termism. >> was there pressure to get beam in the chair, out of the chair, everybody has short attention span? >> there is a pressure on having, you know, four and five people on the air at once and people start yelling at one another. that's -- >> hollywood squares. >> exactly. the markets are live and people want information five minutes ago and there's competition. so there was a pressure in that regard. but, you know, that's all good in some regard because it's giving investors more information. what i'd like to do is give more perspective, bring that rolodex that i was able to, you know, put together, create, foster relationships on the air here at fox, to make sure that viewers are, in fact, getting an edge, in my own way, in a little different way than i was doing

at cnbc. and i think that there is room for many alternatives. people want alternatives, by the way, i think. >> competition is good. >> yeah. >> in business as well as in every kind of coverage. you, besides being on the air for a couple hours a morning at fox business in you network, you're going to have a sunday show. and it's a lead in to "media buzz." >> that's right. i'm your ledin. >> how do you envision that program adding to conversation? >> every sunday morning, you see so many politicos out on the air. i look forward to it. i want to hear what the talkers are saying. >> there's a lot of spin out there. >> that's exactly right, howie. there's so much spin. and at the end of the day, very few people are actually connecting the dots. it's about the economy. it's about creating jobs. it's about business. where is the growth? and that pertains to the growth in the economy, the growth in corporate america, the growth in

america. so i'm looking ford growth, but i want to make sure it's part of the conversation. i don't want just a republican and a democrat talking on sunday mornings. i want to ask that business guy, why do you have $1 trillion overseas? what is it going to take in terms of tax reform that's going to get you to take that money back to america? why can't you find the employees that you need with the right skill sets required to actually thrive in your business? this is such a big issue that people cannot find the employees that they need. they can't hire because they don't have the right skill sets. all of these issues are really best answered by the guy or gal on the front lines, the person who is operating a business, small or big. and i intend to get business people as part of the conversation on the sunday morning. >> you've got your work cut out for you. it's always bugged me that the tabloids here stuck you with the nickname, the money honey. at one point, you trademarked it. did you reluctantly embrace this? >> no, it wasn't reluctant. i was happy to get noticed early

in my career. i think i was happy to be noticed. >> it's a very male environment when you were -- >> yeah, but no one really picked up the phone and said hello, money honey. come on. but it was something that the new york post had a rhyme and they went with it. but the truth is, i feel like my viewers know who i am and my sources know who i am and i never felt that it was belittling me in any way. so i let it roll off any back and i'm thrilled to have been noticed. >> okay, honey. but we will always refer to you as marie ya bartiromo. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. ahead on media buzz, ted nugent unloads on cnn after the network rips him for an inflammatory attack on president obama. we'll tell you what led up to this apology. and later, facebook buys a texting app for $19 billion?

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cnn is in a big time feud with ted nugent. the rock star turned political activist said this a few weeks ago. >> i have obviously failed to galvanize and prod and not shave enough americans. the ever vigilant not to let a

chicago communist-raised, xhubist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the acorn community organizer gang sister barack husain oh bam moo to weasel his way into the top office of authority of the united states of america. >> subhum humahuman mongrel, th offensive on so many levels. >> shockingly, abbott's campaign brushed aside the criticism saying they value nugent's commitment to the -- do they know the value of that phrase, subhuman mongrel? that's what the nazis called jews. >> nugent hit back on twitter. he wrote, cnn, propaganda

ministry mongrels. maybe it's debatable whether abbott should be held accountable for the inflammatory remarks. but after senator rand paul called nugent's words offensive, the singer went on the radio show and sort of apologized, not necessarily to the president, but on behalf of much better men than myself. it's important for xhen taters on the right and the left to join in calling out this ugly language just as some did when msnbc's martin bashir made his unspeakable attack against sarah palin. have you heard of whatsapp? mark zuckerberg just because it for an unbelievable amount of mope. our digital download is next. oi. chalky... not chalky. temporary... 24 hour. lots of tablets... one pill. you decide. prevent acid with prevacid 24hr. this is the creamy chicken corn chowder.

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time now for our digital download. >> this is my reaction, i have to tell you, what on either is wha whatsapp? my second reaction was, $19 billion? that's insane. >> but if you look at a lot of analysts, you get over that huge sticker shom shock from the very beginning, a lot of analysts are saying, hey, it is actually online with what people pay peruser. they have $450 million users around the world. mark cuban sold his website many years ago and it was $11,000 peruser. so this seems pretty good. >> assuming all those userses

stick with it. i've been checking it out and it's a perfectly good service. except there are no charges. you can basically text until 3:00 in the morning for free. >> right. well, i have a plan that is texting unlimited. >> but you pay for that. >> but it's unlimited. but for people in other countries, especially where this is very popular, it is completely free. and you don't need to have a plan to do that. >> i love the human interest back story here. the co-founder of this site couldn't get a job, couldn't get hired by facebook back in 2009 and here he is negotiating zuckerberg and coming up with this huge pay -- >> right. when lexi stemple, our executive producer sent that to me, i said, yeah, you go for it. the other founder was living on food stamps when he was little. look at this now. >> all these techkies are going

back to their garage. >> but on facebook, whether it -- you know, facebook has the money to do this. it's betting about 10% of its net worth on this. but facebook is desperate to be on everyone's phones, not just in the u.s., but around the world. but its own messaging service was a complete flol flop so it's trying to buy its way into this market. >> right. i remember when it happened and i looked at the 19 billion and i thought, fwosh, how is this possible? i went immediately to the twitter feed and it was service is interrupted, we're sorry, we'll get back to you. almost every two months. and then it happened again. >> some people have been deleting their accounts because they don't believe zuckerberg's promise and not only that it will remain independent and that it will continue to not carry advertising. >> i'd like to know what people think about this. i tried it and i had a real problem because i couldn't get . still to come. big maher has something to say

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here are a few of your top tweets on whether cnn and other networks should have interviewed george zimmerman. in the fast two years, only two networks have gotten an interview. actually three network. and the best thing that could happen is we never hear from this killer ever again. the fcc has delayed plans to question newsrooms about bias in news gatheren. if fcc had pulled outrage, the rest would protest immediately. fascism pure and simple. >> what's interesting is how he is about the fcc question -- was

the free press at work stopping something that the government was doing? which is exactly what it's supposed to be doing. >> some media outrage is warranted. moving on to buzz worthy "vanity fair" has killed a major profile of gwyneth paltrow who asked friends not to cooperate and called carter to complain. he writes in the new issue, there was nothing wrong about the piece, but the media chatter created expectation of an epic takedown that would make a story seem like a disappointment. it seems like only example of coziness with the hollywood crowd. i've been arguing that they've fixated on the chris christie scandal. here's bill maher saying just about the same thing. >> i love this network, but i thought they were a little over the top in how much they had been covering this story. a lot of the shows, it is the first story, the top story every night. it's two months into this

scandal. >> i am totally obsessed with the story, up apologetically and will continue to be obsessed with it while amazing things continue to happen. >> finally a research are says that people curse more on twitter than in real life. >> imagine that. the statistics are 0.5% in real life. 1% on paper, on twitter. >> 1 in 13 years is a curse word. the f-bomb was the most popular. a whole list of others, and then it gets progressively worse after that. >> i think people are more relaxed on twitter, but of course they're doing it in front of an audience. >> and i think you can get into a lot of trouble in twitter, as many people have found out. especially when you're using words like this. >> well, blank that. >> hey! >> that's it for this edition of "media buzz." i'm howard kurtz. let's continue the conversation on twitter. check out our facebook page. we post video, have

conversations. give up a like if you would. we are back here at 11:00 eastern and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest buzz. let's stark with the alert the ukraine plunges into political turmoil. the parliament has picked a temporary leader, but the embattled leader viktor yanukovich refuses to quit. he has fled the capital, leading protesters to cheer. >> they have come and change things here, so we are really happy. >> well, it is now 7:00 p.m. in kiev, darkness is following, but many hope this is the start of a bright new future. hello, everyone. >> it is such a relief to see th