siegel will have a report tomorrow on how hospitals are preparing against the ebola threat and how testing is done. that's tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. right here on the fox news channel, that does it for us, thanks for watching. >> take care. buzz meter this sunday, the media exposed stunning security lapses by the secret service that help shove its director out the door. washington post disclosures about president obama's life was endangered leading to a constant chorus about why she hadn't been fired. >> director pierson should resign today. yords why she has not resigned as a matter of honor and duty and service to their country. she has got to go. >> do you think she should go? >> i think so. >> look at why julia pierson blamed the media. the press pushing back hard against the president, appearing to shift the blame for underestimating isis in his intelligence agencies, but the

media also fall short in covering these dire warnings? the nonstop coverage of the ebola virus dominating the news. hat hour, health officials casting a wide net in an effort to track down everyone that was exposed to ebola here in the united states. >> we here are talking about ebola the last few days. do we need to? >> are we reaching the point where the mainstream media are scaring people? plus when the miami harold exposed a fling with diana rice? a new look at that bit of monkey business. i'm howard kurts, and this is media buzz. begin with a series of washington post scoop. the service botched the probe of the white house being hit by high powered bullets three years

ago. the knife wielding fence who made it to the east room, and the washington examiner reporting that an armed felon was allowed to get an atlanta elevator with the president. after julia pierson's week an n un. the door was unlocked at the time of mr. gonzalez's entry, that's correct. >> i do not think the security plan was properly executed. and that is why i'm conducting a robust investigation. >> do you think she should lose her job? >> yontd she she ask survive this. >> julia pierson who testified today in front of the house, she's got to go. >> the white house spokesman defended the embattled director at least briefly. >> are you telling me this morning that the president of the united states and the first lady have confidence in julia pierson to run and agency that's supposed to protect their two daughters? >> yes, joe, they have dmfs

them. >> and the president concluded that new leadership of that agency was required. >> that was just a few hours later. joining us now analyze the media's role. sheryl atkinson, she now reports for sinclair television station. steve hayes, and michael tomaski, columnist for the daily beast. did the pounding media make it impossible for her to survive? >> clearly it would have some impact especially coming from all sides. i think it would be naive to think that alone would cause the decision. i would say the media had the green light to make that criticism because it was not a criticism of the administration per se, it was more of a defense of president obama and they felt like that was a criticism that was fair to make. >> and bipartisan unity on we can't let the president's life be in danger. when every single guest is asked, should he go, why does she are a job? does it become impossible to

talk about anything else? >> ting contributes to that kind of flood of coverage that we saw, but look, the media uncovered so many things that the president and his own advisers didn't know about what the secret service had done. >> that's right. it haven't levelled with the white house. >> they dent know that. the initial story about the fence jumper, the secret service misled the american people or allowed someone to mislead the american people without correction. i think at that point, the media is going to pile on because, you know, journalists plague nothing worse than feeling they were misled and putting out a story that didn't comport with the facts. >> what about the surreal spectacle about josh ernest expressing full confidence then a few hours later is explaining her resignation and the president felt new leadership was needed. really weird. >> really strange. and the typical ritual that any white house goes through, right, of either party when something hams and the press spokesman holds fire until the decision is made back behind the scenes, but you know, peter johnson was

right in the clip that you played. she should have resigned out of honor long before this was forced on her. and the white house, the white house should have, you know, compelled that behavior out of her earlier than it did. >> president obama famously doesn't like to fire anyone, and certainly not quickly. in this case he didn't have a choice. the washington post drove the story with the exclusives, with your background, talk about how why sources within the agency would go to a report rather than complaints of the bosses? >> in my experience, the last thing they want to go is go to a reporter. most by the time they're that desperate for whatever they think is the truth to be told, they wrung the bells inside the agency, they've done all they can. >> antecan be risky. >> absolutely, but they're at their wit's end and willing to just put it all out there. >> there was one source quoted an agent by name, she wasn't quoted directly saying she was

afraid to tell the bosses about that the bullets hit the white house, that made it into the press. what about the gender question. there was some chatter during that time before julia pierson staeped zoun, she got this job because she was a woman. is that fair to introduce agendaer? >> well, it's a natural question, there aren't that many women compared to men, i guess that lead federal agencies and administrations. the question will be asked i don't get wrapped up in that. as woman, doors have opened to me because i'm a woman. overall, i think for most of us, it evens outs out. >> and what about the post game spin, julia pierson, she spoke to bloomberg news and said the media made it clear this is what they expected? >> i think she wanted to make herself a victim. she was doing the honorable thing, albeit belated. there's not many people like tloil agree with her. the string of problems that the secret service has had, both

before she came into office and after, i think is what doomed her, and the fact that she came in suggestioning that she was there to change the cull chir and plainly the culture didn't change at all. >> what's strektly -- strictly shotting is once the door is hitting you on the way out, then there was a leak. there was an unofficial saying she wanted to have a friendly approach to security kind of like disney world where she worked as a costume character in high school. that struck me as not being lea. >> this was an offhand comment she made to somebody at one time? it didn't help her as she tried to shape that narrative. >> you would ask why whtle blowers document forward. they have bureaucrats that come from administration to administration and cultures that persist. and i doubt this is something that was just raised in the past couple of months or in the incidents that we heard about. there is probably a high level of frustration among a lot of

officials, this may have been happening far very long time and it finally boiled over. >> you know, as washington feeding frenzy's go and we have seen a lot of them, this is one of the most legitimate ones. i think we would all agree on that. you know, we cannot tolerate these kinds of activities, these kinds of things happening. >> this doesn't get you fired, what would it take to lose your job in the administration? but here's what bothers me, understandably, legitimately, justifiably, we are upset to learn that this guy not only jumped the fence, knife, guns in his car, he didn't make it just inside the door, made it all the way to the east room, and of course the incident in the elevator which is just unfathomable. but now, the media, you know, now we're into ebola, we've moved on, the underlying problems haven't been solved by the resignation, the va scandal, we've now declared the story to be over. >> i don't think carol has declared to keep the story over. she's done an amazing job.

you know, but there is this tendency to not stick with bureaucratic problems. it's less sexy than is so and so going to lose their job? >> i think it falls off quickly, i think the media's appetite goes from hot to cold, and i think there's plenty of air time and web time to cover all of the different stories as well as the followup on big stories like this. i hope we keep at. pnchts. >> let's switch now to isis, i want to play sound, showing, this is, well of course the president obama told steve krovt on # 0 minutes and the reaction in the white house briefing room. >> how did they did they end up, in control of so much territory? was that a complete surprise to you? >> well, i think our heads have of the intelligence community, jim clapper acknowledged that i think they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> this is one of your key

people on iraq who was raising this alarm in november of last year, did this message get to the president? did he believe it? did he not here it? what happened? >> i can see the administration says the president was not blaming james clapper, the media say of course he was. who's right? >> of course he's blaming james clapper. it's unusual for president obama to make a specific blame by name like that. i can only think that perhaps fellow democrats or public pressure polls told him there has to be a mea culpa, this had to be acknowledged and either james greed or found himself the pumpbling bag, one way, he's it. and a lot of people i speak to on both sides of the spectrum don't think james clapper is probably to blame for all of the things that the president seems to be blaming them for. >> if there was punching back, you have a time story the next day, unnamed intelligence officials quoted.

one of them said some of us will push in reporting on the chaos in syria in the pass. the white house didn't pay attention to it. it wasn't a big priority. is that good reporting or is there an aspect here where the media can be used by unnamed sources trying to get their side? >> what? the media used? absolutely that's happening. i think in this case this had validity in part because you've seen public officials make this case beforehand. you had the head of the defense intelligence agency say in congressional testimony this isis problem is a growing problem, we've got to get in front of it, and that didn't happen. so you had sort of on the public record, a series of officials over a long period of time saying, this is going to be a crisis unless we don't confront it. when the president said, you have a president dismissing it earlier. they'd already taken flew that. so by the time the president tried to blaim to james clapper, it was much less believable for

reporters who have been covering the story on a basis. zblubl the president should have acted and armed the syrian rebel twos years ago. but is it fair to say that the president ignored these warnings as opposed to made a decision which maybe the wasn't right decision to not escalate u.s. military involvement? >> i don't think we know enough to say that. what was what we can certainly say fairly is he really wanted the syria problem to go away. we saw, i think he anticipated that it might you know be his quagmire as it might not be he was wanting to get involved. maybe that made him reluctant to pay attention. >> is there the question of public opinion, everyone remembers roughly a year ago when the president was going to bomb syria because of the use of chemical weapons. congress didn't want any part of

it, and he backed away. the president didn't want it either. >> and tharts, that's a fair point to be made in his defense. if 70 or 60% of the public is against bombing, as he was considering doing the bombing in august of 2013 which the story's about the chemical gases assad doing was it. when they were coming out. but congress would not have approved, the public didn't approve. so that's something, he's paying attention to public opinion. >> we can't know what might have happened, but it's interesting. i want to talk about the media. let me get a break. send me a tweet, we'll read some of your messages a little later in the program. in a moment, more on the media debate over isis, and on the saturation coverage of the ebola virus, and later did gary hart scandal turn the media into the sex police? later did the gary heart scandal turn ♪ [ female announcer ] we love our smartphones. and now telcos using hp big data solutions are feeling the love, too.

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once president obama appeared to blame intelligence officials for underestimating the terrorists in iraq and syria they began digging out sound bites from the last year of administration officials warning about the terrorists. >> tonight a paper trail is emerging about warnings of the growing threat of isis as far back as last winter. >> earlier this year they announced a campaign of terror. >> there's no question that isil is a group growing roots in syria and iraq. >> it's important to focus on where the violence is coming from. it's coming from al qaeda and it's affiliates. but we are confident they will not succeed. >> our media buzz research team did some digging and found that

those clip hearsay virtually no coverage in major media out lets. where's the media in all of this? >> here's my cynical viewpoint. it would have been on the front page had the administration wanted it to be on the front page. the media waits for the administration to dictate the agenda and coverage. >> why do they do that? easier? safer? >> a complicated set of reasons but it has to do with easier, laziness, support for the administration. support in general for the powers that be. wanting to tow the line but i guarantee you that if there had been headlines or the administration wanted concerns about terrorism to be on the front burner quite the opposite happened and i see this whole question about isis as another point in the continuum that the administration apparently wanted to down play concerns about terrorism buy and large.

>> but would the benefit of hindsight if the situation was so dire and the terrorists are growing in their ability to murder people and grab land, did the media fall down on the job? what we're seeing now is a manifestation of a debate that's been taking place behind the scenes in the intelligence community in particular. for quite some time, for several years. now the administration had mades the argument in the leadup to ar the 2012 election and the aftermath that al qaeda was on the run or decimated or destroyed. and you had it a contingent of folks, mostly at the defense intelligence agency, but also ae the cia and elsewhere that was saying the opposite, no, this threat is growing, al qaeda's expand, now control more expa territory than ever. and what you saw is that rear its head in the form of this rm debate over isis. >> personal story, two years ago i was being told by military anl intelligence officials some of the same things president obama just said sunday in the "60

minutes" interviews where the arab spring uprisings happened and so on, and i proposed a story at cbs that would look at the regional impact of what wasn going on rather than the a counl by country crisis to look at tht bigo picture because my sources were saying this is connected -a >> and what happened?s >> the cbs manager said we're not interested.rested. i firmly believe had the white house putha that on thed front burner and suggested a story like that, i think we would d h have. >> when the terrorist seeses fallujah, it was a two day story, abc evening news, nbc nightly did two, couple on msnbc, more on fox news, again that was an opportunity. and covered as an iraq story opposed to any potential threat to the united states. th your thoughts.s. >> it was in degree, and kind. it was really different from ro -- inappened in anamosale

mosul, the situation, whether 'i ther iraqi arm dropped the mo weapons and ran, and being ar closer to baghdad as it was. that was the event that made b everybody wake up, and until age then, as sheryl rightly says without the administration th putting it on the agenda,en it u just wasn't going to bubble up i to the top. >> i think one reason is that iraq andd syria were seen as distant, depressing story, not n good for ratings, and so it didn't bubble upde until it seed like it was a threat to the bub united statesle of america. a ta thanks very much for joining us this sunday. coming up with ebola dominating the airways, have the media fe moved from reporting to fearar mongering? doing combat at the white house, coming up. combatwhite house.

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ebola story has spread across the media with a speed of

a frightening virus, and that's how it's portrayed. >> happening now, breaking news, ebola quarantine, residents locked down where the man was first case of the disease diagnosed in the united states. >> we are covering it all, we begin in dallas where ebola has a city on edge this morning as we learn more about the man infected with the deadly virus. >> ebola here in the united states, tonight there are growing fears that it could spread. >> it has now touched our extended family. photojournalist working with dr. nancy sneiderman and her team in liberia tested positive for ebola. >> joining us now, the director of the school of median and public affairs at the school in georgetown washington university. >> is it sensing fear? >> i think it is. to some extent justifiably, to some extent, unjustifiably. there was a headline that grabbed me out of the daily mirror out of london.

turned out this wasn't about that. this story's all about fear. and fear sells. >> i was watching cnn the other day, and they did not come off the ebola story unless maybe i took a bathroom break and missed it. cnn has company here, and i think we should point out, the news organizations are trying to be responsible, but the sheer volume, the coverage, the hour by hour updates and news conferences conveys a sense that something steshl happening. >> there's a real story here, the best line was in the washington post today, and it said this is a biological as well as psychological plague and fear request can spread faster than the virus, and that's true. we don't know what surrounds this. how large the numbers are, how big it's going to get. it's confounded, and that's a great piece in the post today, it is confounded the world health organization and the cdc. >> there's a real story here,

what went wrong, what's happening now, how many are going to die, but it's so easy to take a story like this and go plunging off the deep end because, as i said, fear spreads faster than the virus. >> right. and it's a story that's international in scope. if you just look at the united states, what, four or five confirmed cases, and yet, i get the imbregs, and again it's not just television, it's websites, it's being covered as a calamity, almost an epidemic, and we're not close to there yet. >> we have this gentleman in dallas and we hope he does well and survives. >> and mistakes were made by the dallas hospital. >> great reporting. >> it's a real story, it's the press's job to look into that. let's remember, that this year in the united states alone, some 36,000 people are expected to die from the flu. >> right. >> so when you keep it in perspective there, that being said, there's just too much we don't know, and that's what feeds the journalism and what feeds the public interest. >> is there a positive side in the sense that in this situation, strange new virus, we

don't know enough about it. the media can help educate americans. >> it is like with all crisis a teachable moment. one thing that's important that has to come out of this is for people to understand that in this world where globalization is a reality, borders don't matter on many things, and this is one of them. i mean they matter because this is where we try to stop, but we see that that's a fallible process. so can people learn more about the world? can we learn that what happens to an african is as important as what happens to an american? and they become interchangeable. so does that engage us with the world? i hope so. >> there's huge public interest. people are talking about it, but come on, if it wasn't good for ratings, it wouldn't be the lead story hour after hour, isn't that a factor? >> probably, but i think the reason that it's good for ratings is because people are concerned, they're afraid, i was talking with a neighbor yesterday, here in washington, he works for the city government, he says people there are asking whether they should, you know, hold a blanket or, you

know, they're processing. i went on social media, here's one, big ou texas football game in dallas, should fans be concerned about attending the game? >> it's good for ratings in a healthy sense -- >> it's good for ratings because people are worried, they're scared, and that's where the media is supposed to be doing their job explaining. >> i just think it's a question of volume, and i think the mind, decibel level here is getting too loud. >> are we hyperventilating because hyperventilating is bad for your health and bad for journalism. >> media have good at that. thanks very much. ahead on "media buzz," president obama another shot at fox news. i asked ed henry about covering the secret service, isis, and are those press briefings really theater? service, isis and are those press meetings really theater? . with centurylink as your technology partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure,

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live from america's news headquarters, isis on the attack. what many military analysts call a terror army is now is waging intense combat for the kurdish town of kabani. that's on the border of turkey and syria. if that town falls, there are fears a large scale massacre could occur. kurdish fighters are defending the town and they're low on ammunition and heavy weapons, they're desperate for help. and one u.s. airman is dead, two others missing in the waters of japan. they were swept away by a powerful typhoon. a massive search and rescue operation is under way, but the u.s. safrs warning, strong winds have a rain, a big problem right now. it's baring down on tokyo. i'll see you at 7:00 p.m. eastern, 4:00 p.m. in the pacific with the fox report. right now, requested media buzz." the secret service debacle

prompted aggressive questioning from white house correspondents including fox's ed henry. >> what seems confusing is for three days in a row, you and other white house officials have seemed kind of calm about the idea that a man got into the east room and that another man got inches away from the president with a gun. where's the outrage? where's the we can't believe this happened? >> ed, it is true that the president and everyone here at the white house does have full confidence in the men and women of the united states secret service. >> for more on the challenges of covering the president, i dropped by the white house. >> ed henry, thanks for having me. when an intruding walked behind me and the mess erupted, you asked if the president has full confidence in julia pierson. does the whole confidence thing a dance? >> sometimes. i think it's a legitimate question because i was personally stunned that for josh ernest, for two days this week, appeared to be not that stunned by the whole thing. >> you said where is the

outrage? >> yeah the third day because the fence is one thing. the incident in atlanta, the elevator where a guy with the criminal record and a gun was inches from the president of the united states, and the white house said, well, we're investigating that. investigating this? something horrible could have happened. now i understand they were also doing a dance and we should respect which is they are trying to keep moral up. the last thing you want to do is attack an agency that's protecting the president or trying to. it's delicate. >> did this hit home, not only because the president's life clearly jeopardized, but because you guys work here, you see the agents all day. >> i know a lot of them and respect them. as part of the story, i always try to say that most of the agents and officer i know are outstanding law enforcement officials. we focus on the bad moments and you should, big mistakes, most of the times they get it right, and we should make that part of the story as well. i was live on air with brett baier.

on the air, a guy jumps over the fence behind me and had a pokemon hat on, everyone laughed later, but i turned around and saw docks on this guy, i saw men with large weapons, and they snuffed it out quickly. the fact that the next time they famed cat strofically is a big job, and they first swept is off as the president wasn't here. there are reporters, staffers, and tourists from all around america outside. everyone's a target. >> this is a hazardous assignment, ed. you asked if one of the briefings about the president appearing to push off responsibility for the underestimating. >> he didn't appear to, he did. >> he said he wasn't blaming james clapper, sometimes, i think the white house forgets the president's on tape, we heard that the president, that's why when i followed it, i said let's go back to the question.

when steve kroft asked when you were surprised -- >> is it common -- >> shifted it over. >> any secretary to play war games and say -- >> pin him down. yeah, they want to play games. in this case, the president asked a question about himself and said will james clapper. isn't this the president director of national intelligence and finally said yes, that's not the way the president said about 60 minutes ago. >> isn't part of what goes on, a bit of theater, you want to get a clip of yourself that you can show on fox later. >> there's no doubt that you use the clips, i think it's important, are all of your questions fair? no. is every moment, we're not perfect, and so -- >> are all your questions fair, sometimes you're trying to prod them. >> always into something provocative. if you're going to, in the sense of, if you just sit there and ask a nonprovocative question,

of course you're going get a non-provocative answer and let them stay on their talking points. the key is to get off the talking points, i'm not picking on josh ernest, dana parino calms me an equal opportunity blank, it starts with an a, that's because she didn't like the questions i was asking her. no matter who's in power, take them on. >> and on that point, you were at cnn, now fox news, obviously, does the white house treat you differently since coming to fox? >> sometimes they're going to be tougher. the president takes pokes publicly, i would feel it would disingenuous to pretend that the relationship is not different. i will say that he comes after fox and they feel like we're pressing them hard. i make no apologies. i have on my phone a screen grab of a woman that saw me on o'reilly thought i was too nice to the president. and i said go back to the cnn or wherever you came from. it reminds me sometimes, there

are people in the fox audience who think that i'm too nice to the president. you know what, as you come down, you have some people mad on the left, some on the right, hopefully you're getting in the middle where you're being fair. >> equal opportunity blank, i like that. ed henry, thanks for joining us. >> good to see you. >> and ed henry was at the playoff game last night. they lost in 18 hard breaking innings. i was depressed until this morning i ran into one of the presidential mascots. there i am with teddy. never know who you're going meet why the green room. ahead on "media buzz." is it unethical for a media to pretd a profile and frame politicians for sexting. sexting? that episode is blamed for the rise of gotcha journalism.

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the presidential campaign imploded back in 1987 after the miami harold reporters staked out his washington townhouse and disclosed his relationship with donna rice. an actress who he sailed on a boat called monkey business. there's the picture. as we enter the way back machine, you may recognize this anchor. >> presidential candidate gary hart dismissed allegations he's a womanizers. the editorial says hart lied

publicly on three occasions. my verbally attacking the harold reporters. who after publishing a false story now concede they may have gotten it wrong. >> wrong. >> we've made no such concession. we did not and do not. >> and who most outrageously refused to interview the very people who could have given them the facts. >> our reporters, one of whom had known hart well from the 1984 campaign, entreated him to please, make this woman available. he wouldn't. >> is that a turning point with the media? i sat down with matt buy, author of the new book, all the truth is out. >> welcome. >> hey thanks, nice to be with you again. >> you suggested when gary hart was knocked out that that the the week that the media became the sex police and cared more about character perhaps than the issues? >> i think that week marked a turning point. i think that point was coming

regardless, and for all the reasons i go into the book, i think someone was going to walk into it. i think that moment was a tipping point where from that period on you can measure a very different kind of process. >> why is that a bad or sleazy thing? character, we later learn is pretty crucial as we saw in the bill clinton's presidency and you could argue that the press was no longer in cahoots with fa landering politicians. >> it's not like the good old days were great, just, you know, to be clear, you know this, you've read the book, you know, it's great to have these debates, but the book is not a manifesto about privacy, we should do ten things, it's not, it's not a theoretical, it's a story, it's a story i became completely obsessed with over time because, you know, here it's the story of this man who was, you know, the hillary clinton of his moment, the presumed nominee of the democratic party, who as you know, finds himself bizarrely, literally, backed up against a brick wall in an oil-stained

alley wearing a white hoodie surrounded by four reporters who are asking him who's that woman in your house, and did you have sex with her and are you cheating on your wife? questions never asked. and this kind of thing is unprecedented, in that alley, i think is the shifting ground. the ground actually shifts in politics and journalism. >> now we have a sex scandal every other week. >> right, but it reverberates through the years after, i think it reverberates in his life. it's not just how effective politics and political journalism, it's a gripping story of a man coming to terms with this. >> i think you ask all the right questions, but i think you and i differ on where you suggest that well the miami harold abdicated its role about what's more important. i think they had solid information and acted on it. you suggested that the paul taylor who will asked the question, have you ever committed adultery, that maybe he went too far. i would say he says you know it was distasteful, but justified,

i would say how do you not ask the question in the situation. >> it's one of the great things about a story like this. people are going to look at it different ways. i don't say you know, i don't know what decisions i would have made, i don't know what you would have made. these reporters, were they were and are excellent journalists. and they were doing this long before i got on the scene. so in no way so do i say couldn't make that decision. >> so are you clear about what the right path is? we are living about the echoes of that today, privacy and how much do you ask about who's dealing with who? >> i ask those in the book. and what i do think is problematic, regardless of the decisions you would have made in the moment is that so much of that episode was then misremembered. what we remember is entirely wrong. >> for example, the immore tam quote, everybody knows this that gary hart gave with the new york times about follow me around. people don't remember the --

>> and they followed him. and the assumption, if he said follow me around, come into my bedroom, and the press did and never left the bedroom of politicians, then heart changed the -- hart changed the rules and everybody had to follow. it's not what happened. he did say that as a kind of frustrated, throwaway line. he was talking to e.j., then of the new york times magazine, my own publications. >> when was it published? >> it sat as they do in magazine cues, and when the harold decides to undertake the surveillance, stake out the townhouse, confront him, that quote is completely unknown. by the time they publish, the quote they have an advanced copy, still not out, but they take that and reference it. from then on people think, first the challenge, then the following. it's not true. >> it was a great moment where you have gary hart being pummelled at this press conference and he looked around the room, and you say, he knew that many of the reporters had been having affairs. hypocrisy there?

>> series of questions of adultery immoral, have you ever committed adultery, and if you talk to the people in that room, they just, therm it like it was yesterday, because they gasped. and hart does look out, and he's looking at reporters who he knew in 1984 had been very affairs, and he's thinking about what's the definition of adultery again, and he goes through this whole process in his head, and that, you know, that moment is really it, 24 hours later, he's back home in colorado. >> matt buy, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> more of that conversation on our home page this week. video verdict is up next. . our video verdict is up next. @j

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in our press picks, th this media fail so determined to expose a politician there's a fictitious woman to entice them. a fake account of a quote 20-something sophie. sending photos to the account saying you must swear on a stack of bibles you won't show pics as i promise of you. okay? he said he was a fool and this is entrapment. pure and simple. two other sunday papers the mail and sunday rejected a scheme of the freelancer along the lines and mirror is defending itself saying it had a clear public interest other than selling papers you mean? top tweets r. the media scaring people about ebola or educating the public? fuming, i wish they cared this much about seasonal influenza.

gordon, you had a sufferer walking around dallas. how many other sufferers? none. believe the experts, not media idiots. matt, some educate, some do both. most contributing the frenzy and unknown. ken, the story is being hyped for ratings. stupid brings eyeballs to the screen. this is an idea ow of bounds. the fcc may start fining stations using the name redskins. telling reporters there were a lot of names and descriptions that are inappropriate today and i think the name attributed to the washington football club is one of those. now, wlorhether or not you finde name offensive, this is not the government's responsibility. the fcc should spike this dumb idea. that's it for this edition of "mediabuzz." i'm howard kurtz. we have videos, we respond to

questions and check out the homepage, as well. we're back here next sunday. 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. thank you for watching fox. i'm chris wallace. the dallas ebola patient is now in critical condition. is our government doing everything it can? >> every ebola outbreak over the past 40 years has been stopped. we know how to do this, and we will do it again. >> we'll have the latest developments. we'll talk with a man in charge of the response in dallas, county judge clay jenkins and personally escorted the family of the patient to new living quarters and posing the questions you're asking. to the head of the national institute of allergy and infectio