that you know there are a lot of great stories out there a lot of great stories when you think of howard kurtz leaving why he's coming to join fox news howard i had we've had our go around howard but howard now as you know we made friends despite disagreements he's taken a couple slaps at me over the years and i slap right back enemies to know we can both take are both big boys big. but i think it's a loss for c.n.n. because he is he's an instant i thought you know what i thought you were the biggest loss and i think most people agree how to get rid of the brand we had they got rid of larry king which was the brand at c.n.n. and i used to watch the numbers you were the fly every single night to the day you left you with a top rated show how do you get rid of the brand that was really stupid well howard kurtz not nearly the brand you are you know they're losing him as a friend so you see more departures the more changes one of the biggest problems you have every time a new president comes in he wants to change everything that's the nature of the beast that right if you think of it look at fox n

that you know there are a lot of great stories out there a lot of great stories when you think of howard kurtz leaving why he's coming to join fox news howard we've had our go around howard but howard now as you know we made friends despite disagreements he's taken a couple slaps at me over the years and i slap right back enemies to know we can both take are both big boys big. but i think it's a loss for c.n.n. because he is he's an instant i thought you know what i thought you were the biggest loss and i think most people agree how to get rid of the brand we had they got rid of larry king which was the brand at c.n.n. and i used to watch a number as you were the fly every single night to the day you left with the top rated show how do you get rid of the brand that was really stupid well howard kurtz not nearly the brand you are you know they're losing him as a brand so you see more departures the more changes one of the biggest problems you have every time a new president comes in he wants to change everything that's image of the beast that right if you think of it look at fox news i've been

howard kurtz looks at how the press reacted but we again with ed henry. >> good evening. tonight barbara boxer says she supports the verdict, but this should not be the final word. she's pushing for an investigation whether trayvon martin's civil rights were violated and today the attorney general confirmed he's looking at that. appearing before the sorority, eric holder suggested say i don't types and mistaken beliefs helped lead it to the death of trayvon martin and holder declared even though george zimmerman was cleared of murder and manslaughter charges in state court, u.s. prosecutors may pursue criminal charges under a federal hate crimes law. >> we are resolved as you are to combat violence involving or directed at young people, to prevent future tragedies and to deal with the underlying attitudes, mistaken beliefs, and stereotypes. justice must be done. >> reporter: holder is under intense pressure to act after protests in cities across the country about the not guilty verdict. plus the naacp is demanding the federal government pursue a civil rights case with a p

let's get into this a little bit with howard kurtz. welcome back. good to see you again.ng a lot of attention. everybody has a right to say what they want to say. in social media. but when you look at some of the background here, is it okay to go thrashing about in these different venues with things that are untrue or that you have no way of knowing what happened that night. >> everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course. but i'm troubled by how some ugly and incendiary comment are made on television, on line, on twitter because it doesn't help the situation in what was already a kind of a divisive and controversial trial blown up by the media who is feeding on it for circulation. among those saying trayvon is a metaphor, that the verdict was an atrocity, you can't be walking while black. al sharpton on msnbc, let's see what he had to say. >> i can tell you, this is long from over and we will be with them every step of the way because this puts every child at risk. >> i think it is a hilittle bitf an overstatement saying every child is at risk np is a very specific c

fox news media analyst howard kurtz joins us live from washington. howard?porter: john rosen makes his living writing a column about parenting. he writes syndicated columns to dealing with brothers with the terrible twos but the author is finding his work censored in the state of kentucky. when the lexington world leader ran one of his columns, the kentucky board of psychology ordered him to stop publishing in the state saying he is not licensed in to practice there. he told me this is absurd case of government oh reaching. >> by their rule of practicing psychology, "dr. phil" is practicing psychology in kentucky without a psychology license. so is dr. laura, dr. drew and numerous other people. they came after and this may sound somewhat narcissistic, i think they came after the little guy because they expected me to fold out of fear of their bureaucratic authority. >> reporter: jon, he has filed a federal lawsuit in the case. i did speak to the chairman of the board, kentucky licensing board, who told me her main problem that in his syndicated columns, rose

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joins by howard kurtz who is a fox media analyst. welcome aboard.hink about all that? >> george zimmerman largely damaged his own rep days. even though he got a fair trial and the prosecution did not profits case beyond a reasonable doubt. many people upset about the possible sect of somebody walking free after shooting an unarmed black teenager. mostly my problem is with the commentary. it was the fact that we didn't have zimmerman's side. we mostly had the pair bones facts of the case which is martin was coming back from the store with a bag of candy and we didn't know the details of the altercation. >> you have to go back to the nbc issue where they edited his words to make it sound as if he said there is a guy out here up to no good and he's black when in fact he was asked that question. do you see what color this young man is, is he white, hispanic or black and that's when he said he's black. did that set things off on the wrong foot? >> nbc's misleading editing of that 911 tape was a horrible blirnl -- ahorrible blunder ande other mistakes alo

totally discredited like poor howard kurtz. >> people can make mistakes.round 90% is probably not great for growth. if every dime you make goes to paying interest is that good for the growth? >> it's a bad thing. >> you don't need a study for that. >> but joe, the point at which it's a drag on the economy is different for different countries. you think that insig spite of w people say are head winds. >> you look at what's happened in the consumer sector. 2008 consumer debt as a percentage of personal income was 140%, all-time high. it's down to 105%. that's an enormous amount of reduction. because of low interest rates the amount that the consumer is spending on interest, debt service, is the lowest it has been in 20 years. that paydown of debt was a drag on the economy. qe-3 supported asset prices, housing and stocks which made, allowed the consumer to spend a higher proportion of their personal income than they would have and now we're getting to the end of that period of debt paydown. that that should provide lift. >> when was evercore founded? >> 18 ye