media buzz with howard kurtz is up next and we all wish you a happy sunday. >> on the buzz beater this sunday, with casualties mounting in the middle east, the media become a major battlefield. are they playing into the hands of hamas by blaming israel for civilian deaths or tilting too far in favor of israel? >> the palestinians are experts at the pr fight. they specifically put little kids in front of weapons. so when israel strikes back, they can put those images on the cover of the newspaper and say look at how bad israel is. >> i think the image that most experience are seeing from this conflict, by and large, are images of the construction in gaza. there's all these people talking about how the israelis are losing the media war for the first time. >> and are social media changing the landscape by spreading gruesome images of war that news organizations won't run?

president obama skips jimmy kimmel while dealing with the crisis over russia and the downing of the ma rashan plane, but is still getting blamed for fund-raising and golfing and dining out. are the pundits being fair? the liberal democrat, what explains the media's fictionation with elizabeth warren. >> my 16 years on this show up against your 132 years of senate service. >> what's that? >> oh, really? i'm wrong? okay. point mccain. so what do us, senator? care to put your money where your -- forced smile through jaw clenching anger is? >> but why did the late night comic duck my question about whether or not he's fair to republicans? what do you say, jon? i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz.

there is no question that hamas started the latest round of mid east violence first with the killing of three israeli teenagers and then by firing rockets indiscriminantly at the jewish state. there's no question it has led to far more deaths in gaza, more than h 43 on the israeli side. and despite israel's effort to not kill civilians. that has made the media -- more crucial. >> it doesn't seem very pinpoint where where i am in gaza. just a short while ago, a building, an apartment building, a large building was attacked by israeli fire here in gaza. several people were killed, including children whose bodies were thrown from the windows. i've seen video of this. we captured itself. >> even jon stewart had to defend himself after expressing

concern, wrapped in satire, of course. >> just merely mentioning israel or questioning in any way the effectiveness or humanity of israel's policies is not the same thing as being pro hamas. >> so you're against murdered children? >> free gaza! >> free palestine! >> netanyanetanyahu says hamas manipulating the media by putting civilians in harm's way while a hamas spokesperson is accusing the israelis of genocide. >> all casualties are intended by hamas. they want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because somebody said they use telegenically dead palestinians for their cause. they want the more dead, the better. >> they are acting in the same

way, killing the palestinians just because they are palestinians, like what hitler was doing in the last century. >> joining us now to scrutinize the coverage of this war, lauren ashburn who hosts social buzz on the fox website, k.t. mcfarland, a former defense apartment official in the reagan administration and fred francis, former pentagon correspondent for nbz now with the firm 15 seconds.com. as news organizations grapple with covering this, how much impact is social media having? >> social media is the new bloody battlefield for this conflict. they show disturbing and gruesome images without a filter. and journalists are doing it, too, without having an editor to say, this is too much. >> k.t., i've noticed a turn in the last 48 hours especially, a lot of commentators now saying

israel easily winning the conflict on the battlefield but losing the media war. true? >> sure. hamas understands that it's never going to beat israel militarily. so the only place it can fight and win is in the public relations scope. what are they doing? look at the split screen you see. you see an israeli official having to defend the deaths of the palestinian children and then you see the palestinian children. what you don't see is the media saying to a hamas spokesman is why are you putting women and children in the places where you know they'll get killed? that's the question nobody asks. >> few journalists have asked, but they don't put the hamas spokesperson on the air. >> exactly. and the israelis, they don't put the pictures of the israeli casualties on the air. >> fred francis, you've reported from gaza in your career. do you see this unfolding as a propaganda war or a military war? >> it's always been a propaganda

war in 2006 and it's a propaganda war today. the israelis with cutting edge, heavy weapons, the palestinians, urban guerilla and it's a symmetrical journalism. the palestinians, media showing pictures of dead palestinian children, but they can't show pictures of the fear of the israelis being hit by 2,000 rockets over the last 20, 22 days. >> so is that -- are you faulting the media for asymmetrical journalism or are you saying they don't have a choice? >> well, no. they have a choice. first of all, they need to stop tweeting from the battlefield. lauren talk about social media. you need to stop that. it's hard enough to cover a we're. the fear of being in xwad combat is hard enough. but to tweet live while you're covering, you're going to make mistakes. and tweeting live pictures like that without any filter whatsoever is a disservice to

journalism, a dissurface to the viewers and listeners. >> even when journalists aren't making mistakes, this story, this conflict, this enemity between these two people which has gone on for thousands of years, it seems like they get attacked from both sides almost no matter what they say. >> sure. you can have balanced comments. and i think this has happened to all of us at this table and people hear what they want toer what. then they use your comments as a journalist to fight their own propaganda war and saying, well, this journalist said that the israelis are terrible. but on the other hand, they would have said the palestinian res terrible for engaging in this battle. yet you hear what you want to hear. >> let's come back to your point about hamas and its strategy. you say it has to have a media strategy and fred calls it asymmetrical journalism. do you think before people are going before the cameras, that journalists are falling down on the job when it comes to pointing out things like where

the weapons are deployed from civilian areas, hospitals, schools, mosques? >> when was the last time you saw a journalist interview a hamas official and say why are you put children in front of bullets? why have you put children to protect your missiles? they don't ask that question. to the extent there are hamas officials out there, they're not answering that question. and it's an violation strategy. >> but you can't show it. frankly, when you're in gaza and you're driving around and you want to go to a mosque where you know there are weapons in the courtyard of the mosque, your driver won't take you there. if somehow you get there -- >> this has happened to you? >> it has happened to me. palestinian gunmen will come out and say it's not safe for you to go there. they don't want you to see the rockets in the courtyard of the school, the courtyard of -- it's not just asking the questions. the palestinians won't let you see it. >> and it's very clever. they realize that they can isolate israel, either isolate israel from the international

community, cause, for example, the episcopal church of america. all that does is isolates israel so israel then is alone. >> but you keep focusing on whether or not we have the ability to ask the questions of the people on the palestinian side who are prosecuting this war. is there enough balance in your view, in the reporting, in the newspaper stories, in the television reports that point out that, for example, israel before, you know, clearly israel has made mistakes, there have been schools and other places that have been hit and those children have died and it's heart wrenching. but they point out that israel drops leaflets and makes telephone calls to an effort to minimize -- >> i was watching a youtube video of destruction of a building in gaza. the commentary is israel has just destroyed an apartment building. what the video showed was that two minutes prior to the destruction, there was a flash

bomb. in other words, there was a warning to get out of the building. what you didn't see were palestinian children running out of the building. >> i don't think that israel is losing the pr war. i mean, benjamin netanyahu has been on television so much you would think he was an anchor or coanchor on some of these shows on certainly a contributor. but they have actually no choice to do what they're doing. and i'm not favoring one side or the other. i've been accused as someone of lebanese dissent that i favor the palestinian side and i've been accused on the palestinian side because i won't take their side of it. so i'm not -- i'm not saying israel is right or wrong here. but they're certainly not losing the pr. >> i'd have to completely disagree with you, fred. i think that these pictures that you're seeing on social media of the father carrying the dead babies and people, as you said, just lying there and -- it is --

they are losing this. they only have the face of benjamin netanyahu. you can't compete with dead bodies. >> on fred's point about being all over the air waves, there was a commentator jamd rula jabreel who raised this point on one of the programs and was invited back to talk to msnbc anchor herb hayes. >> we are ridiculous. we are disgustingly bias when it comes to this issue. look at how much airtime netanyahu and his -- have on a daily basis. i never see one palestinian being interviewed. >> if you peer at a cable network, you trash that network or its anchor on any issue, the folks at the network will not take kindly do it. fairley predictable case of cause and effect. >> nobody likes to be

criticized, right? especially media organizations who do all of the criticism. i understand what he's saying. and i also understand what rulah is saying. she's right for criticizeding and there aren't as many palestinians who are on the air. but chris knows better. there are a lot of organizations that do try to show both sides and present the conflict. >> i think you're being generous. i thought hit comments were outrageous. chris hayes is a smart guy. but basically he's saying you want to come on msnbc, you better not poke us in the eye. by the way, the network says she was a conincident trer until last month and her contract has not been renewed. >> but she chose not to renew. but he's right. personal don't want to hear, at certain networks, criticism. >> he is right and that doesn't make it right. the media love to point fingers at everybody else.

when their own coverage are challenged, it's like, well, what do you expect? we're not going to use this person any more. >> what did rulah's point that the voices in the air waves and overwhelmingly she sees this as being -- >> but what you're doing is comparing -- you have a talking head and israeli politicians and there's an empty chair when it's a hamas politician. you don't see an empty chair. you have the pictures of the civilian casualties. it's almost an unfair comparison when you see bodies versus talking heads. >> my point is the hamas and palestinians have overdone it so much that we understand. the american people understand. the people in europe understand and certainly in israel they understand what hamas is doing and they're not being taken in by this any more. you say they're losing the pr battle. let me tell you something. 80% of approval ratings for benjamin netanyahu. the best numbers he's ever had. >> from the hamas wing of the party, but they were on this

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filled trip. what about the crisis of ukraine and israel? >> the golf course knot the best place to be. >> if an airline is shot out of the sky by a missile, i think i would cancel my trip. >> before making his first statement about this, going and ordering, you know, cheeseburgers at the charcoal pit of up in delaware, continue on a campaign schedule? what looked like a campaign schedule including fund-raisers in new york? was that a mistake, in hindsight? >> it was not. >> this constant criticism of president obama, a lot of it on fox about cheese burgers and fund-raisers and golfing, it's kind of a met for for him not being engaged on the issue. is that fair? >> look, you're almost dammed if you do, dammed if you don't, do i cancel my activities, do i cancel my vacation? maybe do i cancel my fund-raising. but in this case, it reinforces

a disengage ld american president. he's not making statements about them. he's leading from behind, but in fact he's not really leading. but nk it reinforces that sense that he's not in charge. >> i'm not a -- by any means. but this is unfair. i mean, if you would have this president iraqiing to every crisis which happens about every three or four days of late, he would be in the bunker of the situation room nonstop and on television non stop. >> is there a presumption that if the president is going to fund-raisers and on the golf course that he's not working? >> houk -- >> he just came up with he spent too much time at his corporate ranch. the fact is he doesn't do the work, anyway. there's staff that does the work. if you don't think he doesn't get an intelligence briefing every morning and during the day as necessary, he does. and i'm not apologizing. i'm saying it's foreign policy is brittle and embattled at the

best of times, but this is unfair to say that he ought to stop what he's doing. >> is this the try um of optics, treating whether a president looks engaged is more important than anything else? >> actually, it is, because that is true. people want to see their president acting presidentially, right? they want to see him out there and leading and giving people information. and, you know, yesterday he went to congressional country club here in washington and was playing golf with the pardon the interruption hosts from cnn, tony cornheiser and michael willborn. that enough and you say where is this guy even though his staff is doing the work? optics is important. >> i think the president is almost rebelling. i think he should have gone to the border. i think that was an important photo-op. but at the same time, let's be candid, if he does all these photo-ops, it doesn't mean the problems at the border or

ukraine are getting solved. >> we have almost no interest, nothing that we can do in the ukraine up to this plane crash. we couldn't prove it came from the russian side, he couldn't prove anything so he had to step back. he didn't have support. what support does he have with the economic sanctions from europe? so he sort of -- he's squeezed here. you know? so what is he supposed to do, get in front of the cameras and -- >> no, no. there's only so much oxygen in the oval office. if you are out playing golf, you are no the in there and engaged. we should have been working the phones when the ukraine situation happened. >> and he did. >> hold on. so now you are saying he's not doing the things that he could or should have done? >> yes. >> faes fine. thaits that's fair criticism. is it fair criticism, it's hardly the first person to play golf and jump on it every time he hits the links? >> exactly my point. >> i'm asking k.t.

as someone who has worked in several administrations, do you think we collectively are overdoing this? >> not in the least. ewe never seen crises like this, one after another and after another and a disengaged process. >> but part of it, too, is politics. i think the fund-raising aspect of it flips the audience, right? you have the democrats saying we're got going somewhere and then you have republicans saying, hey, wait a minute, you're putting politics and raising money ahead of our world crises? >> and every president including this one uses photo ops when you're talking about jobs, you go to a factory, k.t., fred, thanks very much for joining us this sunday. >> collin frazier reporting for sky news showed up at the crash scene.

>> we should have saved those pictures a little longer. he was going through the belongings passengers had been shot out of the sky. can you imagine anything more degrading than rummaging through their personal effects, somebody who has been killed in a plane crash. frazier later apologized saying certainly it was an error of judgment. i acknowledged that. too late too late i crossed the line i thought aloud, we shouldn't be doing this, it was a mistake. an instant apology that was selectively quoted by those determined to see what i did as a powerful example of journal t journalistic vulturism. ahead, why are the media going gaga over elizabeth warren? first, the problems reporting from the middle east. you want to save money on car insurance? no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance?

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perspective on israel and the palestinians, i'm joined by fox's leland vitter. welcome. when you were reporting from israel or gaza, did you get constant complaints from both sides? >> i think if you get constant complaints from both sides, you're probably doing your job right. i remember my old professor in college said to me so long as the stats of complaints are from both sides, you're probably doing something right. >> but it seems to me those particular complaints are vociferous, correct? >> absolutely. the one thing about the middle east, anyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts. over there, everyone has their own version of facts and their own narrative. this war is played out as many on the battlefield as it is in the media and around the world. that battle for public opinion is so important. that drives the fuel and the anger. >> so trying to get the facts when you're there and the israelis say hamas is firing rockets from civilian areas,

hiding them in schools, etcetera, in order to increase civilian casualties on their side, how do you determine whether that's true? >> well, a lot of times you're able to determine it on the ground. you're in those scenes, you're going there. obviously, it has gotten increasingly dangerous inside of gaza to do those kinds of stories. but the one thing this you have to be very careful of is the fog of war that exists in any of these situations because you're one person and you're on the ground. what you see is one thing. but the larger picture is what you have to be careful not to lose scope of, in other words, and sort of lose sight of that larger picture of what's going on. if you're in gaza, you're not seeing what's happening on the other side of the border. if you're on the israeli side of the border, you're not seeing what the folks in gaza are going through. that's a hard line to walk. >> what about this charge that we hear from israeli leaderes and some of their supporters in the media that the palestinians diabetic rattly display dead bodies to gain problem began da

points. is that a fair question? >> there's no question both sides play this out in the media as much as they do on the battlefield. the palestinians make access to the mead a ya is true. they want their story about be told in the media. one of the real challenges as a reporter is to see the emotion. i don't care what side they're on. when there's a young child that's dead and their mother is holding them in their arms and crying, you cannot be helped but be overwhelmed by emotion. the question is how to make sure that emotion doesn't color your reporting. >> how do you deal with it not just as a journalist, but as a human being? there's so much misery when these break out, there is a distant war, israel is a small country, the gaza strip is incredibly small. how do you deal with it personally being supposed? >> i think you have to take some time and take a step back sometimes at night and thank whatever prop providence you believe in that you have a safe place to come home to at some

level. i realize that a lot of people don't. i think you have to keep in mind so often in television news in a 90-second piece or a two-minute piece, you're looking for an absolute right and an absolute wrong. and in the middle east and a lot of times in times of war, it's really a thousand or 3,000 shades of gray. and that's hard to put into two minutes. you're looking for an answer at the end. most of the time in a story in a conflict that's gone on for 2,000 years, you can't just put a bow on it and go, that's it. >> is that frustrating that you didn't have time or it's just harder to deal with some of the nuances, yes, israel bombed this and unfortunately this family was killed but the israelis did warn people to evacuate. >> right. and you go a step further. but the reason there's so many viflans in this building and it's overcrowd sd because the poverty is there. and you think about most of the issues that you deal with today, the immigration debate, it's been going on for a couple of

decades. this is a problem that's been going on for a thousand years. to put all of that history into a piece is impossible. >> you talked about palestinians, obviously, yooug using television cameras to try and get their side out and show the human misery of this conflict. >> both sides fight this out as a public relations war. it's no secret that prime minister netanyahu is out doing every process now. when the peace process is going on and you want to get him on camera, he's not too keen to talk to you. >> so he uses his availability. he speaks very good english. he uses his availability selectively you are saying when he wants to score points in the middle of a war when israel is getting a lot of international criticism -- >> any politician does. look at president obama. there's times he gives interviews when he has a message he wants to put out and there's times when he doesn't give interviews when he doesn't want to talk about things. the israelis are the same way, the palestinians are the same way, as well. the difference the israelis have is the palestinians, if you go

talk to almost any palestinian on the street, they have a simple narrative that they tell the story. the israelis, it's a little bit more nuanced. >> thanks for giving us the expertise that you acquired. up next, elizabeth warren says she's not running for president, but that hasn't dimd her growing media coverage. and later, jon stewart watched my interview with john mccain. let's say he did not like being called unfair to republicans. ch. it means trying something new. [ woman ] that uncertainty of what's to come. ♪ ♪ ♪ thank ythank you for defendiyour sacrifice.

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with her trademark message. hillary clinton was absent. >> should she be worried about elizabeth warren? >> yes. >> elizabeth warren always has the appeal of a regular woman. she doesn't have that d.c. edge. >> joining us now is joe concha, jackie kucinich. these stories say the left has a love affair with elizabeth warren, but it seems like the media are swooping over here. why? >> she is doing some things that candidates do. she is going and campaigning for democratic candidates. she's speaking at networks, she's doing the sort of things that are so shiny that we can't help but cover it as someone who might be making inroads for a presidential bid. that said, lately in a lot of reports, i've seen it, instead of her challenging hillary, it's her making, i guess, inroads so this hillary doesn't run, she's

she'll be there waiting. there is a shifting in that it's not warren versus hillary, it's warren versus question mark. >> warren says again and again, no wiggle room, i'm not running. segment says she says she's not run, but how would she do against hillary clinton? >> if we look at the polls, she probably wouldn't do that well. but let's look at what we're really talking about here, which is what does the media do these days? it reports, obviously, the facts. but also it's all about info-tainment, as well. hillary going uncallinged gives you risk aversion and repetition. that accidents rate very well. that doesn't generate a lot of page views or sell a lot of newspapers. what would happen if we had an unchallenged hillary? we wou eight guys on the gop side or a woman that would be battling it out over there. what would the media coverage be of the gop? rhetorical question, howie. it would be overwhelmingly

negative. if you want one example -- >> it must be a rhetorical question because you just answered your own question. >> i did, didn't it? >> slate has a piece headlined run elizabeth run. i think it's the media that want a debate. >> just covering one campaign on the democratic side, hillary's march to washington, yeah, it would get boring. it would get repetitious. but, again, i do think there is that feeling what if headlinery doesn't run sflp. >> but if she doesn't run, we could all go crazy for the next career. yet it seems to me this is not just -- the media is almost promoting her as a challenger when she herself says i ain't doing it. >> but if the media didn't cover some of the things warren and biden were doing, then we would be accused of being too ready for hillary. >> cover it, yes. but the tone has been positive. i'm wondering, how much is this because some journalists like her attacks on wall street and the 1% elite.

this resinates with those who might lean left in the news business. >> give diane sawyer credit. she is the prominent member of the richest 1%. she's not an underdog like barack obama was por trayed in 20308. howie, goalup poll asked what would be the number one thing about hillary's presidency? the number one thing was because we would have a woman president. way down the line was because she's the top choice. if you want a plan b, female president, check off a box, elizabeth warren can fill that void. one great example that i saw, abc news david muher described elizabeth warren in an interview. this was the intro, the woman on the front lines fighting the save the middle class. again, rhetorical question. does paul ryan, rapped paul, chris christie, would they ever get that distinction? i don't think so. >> a few seconds, what i'm

hearing here is this is more about hillary and the fact that the media wants some kind of contest to cover, at least a debate on the liberal side. >> it's all about hillary until she makes up her mind. >> a good answer to a n nonrhetorical question. thank you so much for joining us. ahead on media buzz, is it just a rumor that david gregory could be out at meet the president? but first jon stewart calls out john mccain over what he said on this program. did my questions produce some kind of blood feud?. ♪ nothing's missed with tenatwist ♪ ♪ oooh discover the fearless protection of tena. so absorbent even when you twist not a drop escapes. ♪ nothing's missed with tenatwist ♪

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well, my diabolical plot worked. we finally got jon stewart to acknowledge whether he's way softer on democrats with his friendly hillary interview than on republicans. don't give me that he's just a comedian stuff. jon stewart is an important media commentator who uses humor to make his point. here is how stewart handled the question that i put to john mccain on his program. >> this past sunday, our nation's leading journalistic light sought answers to today's most pressing questions. >> you've been on the daily show. is jon stewart fair to republicans? >> obviously, it's a question we're all waiting for, senator. >> no, but he -- you know, it doesn't matter, really.

>> why, senator, why? why don't i matter? >> when he says things -- which he's entitled to. after all, he's a light night comic -- that are absolutely wrong and he gets away with it. >> no? he's right. those late night comics do get away with mistake after mistake. some with catastrophic consequence. but i would be willing to bet, mccain, that if we went wrongo-e-wrongo, you would come out on bottom. my record of absolute wrongness against your record of absolute wrongness for a good old fashioned wrong-off. >> that's pretty funny stuff. by the way, i did ask the senator about one such moment, why he never apologized for his misjudgment backing the war on

weapons of mass destruction. he blamed it on collin powell. did you know notice how he did something very clever there? he turned the debate into a credibility clash between him and mccain. but what about this question? >> is jon stewart fair to republicans? >> on that, jon stewart side stepped, ducked, dodged, evaded, changed the subject. if you'd ever like to take it on, jon, have your people call my people. still to come, cnn's chris cuomo after the shoot-out and what do snoop dogg and bob beckle have in common? i bought a car, over and tells you, and you're like. a good deal or not.

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verdict where we rate on tv clips whether they are good journalism and good tv. >> chris cuomo brought on a guest. >> peter lavelle insisted there was no evidence of russian involvement in the shoot down. things got a little heated. >> peter, peter, calm down. take a breath. we already have something bad happen. there's no reason compound it. >> ask me an intelligent question. >> i asked you several. the questions are spot on. let me ask you again because i'm not a representative of u.s. you seem to be acting as a representative of russia. why hasn't russia come forward. >> character assassination. in five minutes.

>> good for chris cuomo for exposing this guy as a propagandaist. on anchor resign. >> as much as i like chris and he was little conde sescending saying pet, peter what are you afraid of. >> when he told him to take a breath and there wasn't that much intelligence. it went too far? >> i think so. it was good television. i loved how he asked the questions. i think he really got at the heart of the matter so i'm giving the segment an eight. >> i think chris cuomo was hobbled by the satellite. >> now we turn to snoop dogg. yes, you heard that right. we don't often talk about snoop dogg. wasn't exactly a huge shock when the rap star disclosed he was doing something at the white house he should not have been

doing. >> had "the five" got the whiff of this it brought a surprising admission from bob beckel. >> have you ever smoked at the white house? >> in the bathroom. >> did you? >> in the bathroom. >> in the white house. >> in the white house but in the bathroom. when i do number two i usually have a cigarette or i light something and get the aroma right. >> i can't criticize this guy because i've done dope in the white house myself. >> are you breaking news? >> i'm saying. >> there was a lot of dope in that white house. >> it's in my book. i did. yeah. >> you did dope in the white house. all right. >> poor eric bolling. all right. all right. what do you say to that? actually that is a little bit of my criticism of this. i wanted to hear more. i wanted to hear more about bob beckel and his drug addiction. >> on that point i agree. good for bob beckel in being candid. he acknowledged years ago he struggled with cocaine and alcohol addiction and has kicked

it. but, you know, he didn't have enough time or take enough time to explain that so all we got was yeah i once did dope at the white house. >> the better television would have been if he had gone and explained all that. i completely agree with you. i'm giving it a five. >> i'm giving it a seven. still to come your best tweets. and a big online plagiarism scandal. and david gregory is not look for "meet the press." based on what? phillips digestive health support is a duo-probiotic that helps supplement good bacteria found in two parts of your digestive tract. i'm doubly impressed! phillips' digestive health. a daily probiotic.

here are a few of your top tweets. peace says the u.s. media has been predictably on the side of israel. so sad journalists are not journals. travis in a word no. if fairness was the objective the truth would be told not the hamas propaganda. steve says mainstream media they compare the death tolls. israel tries to save life, hamas

wants to take life. and glen says can you imagine how many dead israelis there would be without the iron dome? >> it should show the israeli deaths. that's the point of journalism to be fair and balanced. >> show both sides in the war. the death toll has been very imbalanced. in our press picks this media fail. buzz feed fired its politics editor for blatant word for word plagiarism. these sites borrow too much material from elsewhere and this was different. old-fashioned scam. ben did the right thing by saying he was deeply embarrassed and apologized. >> from nbc news in washington this is "meet the press" with david gregory. >> good sunday morning. >> it's no secret that david gregory is struggling as moderator of "meet the press" having lost 43% of his audience. but and i temple in the "new york post" has the media writing

him off as toast even though it's based on a single nbc source saying gregory could lose it after the mid-terms. "huffington post," david gregory could be yanked from "meet the press." daily beast went with dead head talking and added msnbc jorro joe scarborough and are angling for the job. >> it may be true all of these other news organizations are playing off this one item. >> one leak. >> finally nbc should get rid of david gregory or give him a vote of confidence. this is cruel and unusual. that's it for this edition of "mediabuzz."

check out our facebook page, give us a like. we post original video there. we respond to your questions. or e-mail us @mediabuzz. we're back next sunday morning with the latest buzz. fox news alert a cease-fire agreement may be on the table but the fighting in gaza rages on. rockets fired by hamas militants continuing to rain down on israel overnight endangering countless lives this after both sides spent the last 12 hours going back and forth whether to enter into a new truce. hello everyone. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> hello much. the cease-fire repeatedly broken by hamas as the terror group fires more rockets at israel and the series of attempts at establishing a cease-fire that will be permanent that's so far