i'm howard kurtz, and this is media buzz. we'll get to the tense situation in ukraine in a few moments. the vice president of the united states hits the television circuit this week and the inevitable 2016 questions were asked. >> you've been very open about talking about 2016 and considering what you're going to do. where are you in your thought process? what are you taking into account? >> well, you know, i was planning on making a major announcement tonight, but i decided tonight is your night. >> thank you. >> and so -- >> thank you. >> and then it was off to "the view" where biden had the fun with the soon-to retire barbara walters. >> do not expect you to come on this program and announce that you're going to run for president. i won't object if you want to. do you want to? >> i'll tell you what, make you a deal. if you stick around, i will announce my decision with you. >> if hillary does not run, will you -- you have said that if she runs for president, you will not run. >> no, i haven't. no. >> so how are the media c

i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." it's on monk, noon and night. the malaysian plane that vanished without a trace has become one giant media mystery, drawing constant coverage, endless theories, troubling mistakes and no shortage of speculation. >> that's why it's so astonishing to think that this plane took off in some 40, 45 minutes after taking off that it went utterly silent. >> in you reports tonight that the plane's communication system was shut down manually and not because of catastrophic failure. that it was shut down manually. >> nothing seen like this ever before. that search area, it looks horrendous. >> could the plane still be out there, intact and simply diverted to at undisclosed location? >> there is no other way of saying it, in the disappearance of malaysian airlines flight 370 developments today could change everything. >> i don't believe that this airplane crashed. i do believe that it was hijacked. i do believe it landed some place and i would start first looking in pakistan. >> the headline tonight is u.s. officials say it a

i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. there were reports in the last 36 hours that some journalists in crimea have been beaten. the ap had some equipment confis indicatesed and a cnn correspondent told she would be kicked out of her hotel if she didn't stop broadcasting. given these difficulties and the diplomatic fol fog surrounding the situation in ukraine, our news organization is helping us you cut through that fog. >> what's happened here are the russian troops have come in. they've in essence taken the place over and told the ukrainians to sur renders their weapons. >> i saw soldiers for the first time in my life and i was scared. >> we put that to russian soldiers outside the ukrainian base. >> are you allowing the ukrainian army to go back and forth freely? >> they told us to stop asking questions and go away. >> that's a journalist you referred to, that journalist witnessed this paramilitary masked armed men basically taking away tv equipment. he took a couple of photos. one of them came up with them forcing him

this is "media buzz," and i am howard kurtz. >> we will get to the situation in ukraine in a few moments. the vice president of the united states hits the television circuit and the inevitable 2016 were asked. >> you are open talking about 2016 and considering what you are doing. where are you in the thought process? >> i was going to make a major announcement tonight but i decided tonight's your night. >> thank you. >> then off to "the view," where he had fun with soon-to-be retired barbara walters. >> i did not expect you to announce you are going to run for president. i won't object if you want. do you want to? >> i tell you what, i will make you deal, if you stick around i will announce my decision with you. >> from hillary clinton does not run will -- you have said if she runs you will not run. >> no, no, no, i haven't said that. >> how is the media cover this? >> we have fox news contributor and author of the top twitter top column, and the author of "the blaze," and danaamilbank. >> he is not going to run if hillary clinton runs. this could be his last campaign, 2014. he needs to

i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. television's coverage of the missing plane seemed out of control in the first week, but in the last few days, it's gone at times into another galaxy as the endless hours of airtime and the chase for ratings produce more speculation, more conspeakersy mungering and just plain weirdness. >> did lithium batteries play a role in the flight of 370? >> i don't think it's a suicide mission. i think it's a well funded high tech operation and it's sitting somewhere in the jungle. >> i think the chances are that this may have already happened, that this plane wandered into chinese or kurgistan or something and now there's a cover-up? >> my course of action, number one, it was hijacked, number two, but ought to look at pakistan and eastern iran was a course of action that wasn't arbitrary. now it's interesting that we're starting to get other sources to verify it. >> a theory that can explain why and how this plane went down, it is called the zombie plane scenario. >> in the past, governments ha

. >> joining us now from washington howard kurtz host of media buzz seen mondays on fnc.by the network. we are heading in that direction what say you? >> yes. it's a new low. when cnn anchors are talking about super natural explanations and black holes, the media's credibility is vanishing into a black hole. i think have you been a little soft in your criticism. you said the whole thing was turning into a farce which suggests it's kind of funny this is a fiasco for journalism. forget about college basketball, this is march madness. >> a guy has a book out on the making of network, that's the movie where howard behl, i'm mad as hell and cybil the soothsayer this is getting very very spooky in real life. the polls that that journalists are about as popular with the american public as book makers. i think we are down there 15, 20% range i thousand now we're diagnose to degeneres descend even further. people watching the madness, even people driving by to watch the craziness, they know it's irresponsible coverage. they are going to remember. but i could be wrong about that. >

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. >>> coming, media buzz with howard kurtz, that's next. >> on the buzz beater this sunday, americanarachuting to ukraine as news organizations scramble to cover the russian invasion of crimea under difficult conditions. but are journalists giving us a clear picture of the crisis or are the pun didn'ts focusing on president obama? and why was the mainstream media so dismissive when mitt romney called russia president obama's -- foe. and bob costas says a media culture unfairly targeted him. >> i don't respect the heat over light voices which can be

howard kurtz joins us in just a moment.ssing malaysian plane has been all over the place at times, including leads that turned out not to be relate today the p7 -- 777. joining me to talk about it, howard kurtz of the fox news channel. the huffington post put out a story that says cnn is on the defensive of its round-the-clock coverage. you know both of those organizations pretty well. and in one six-hour period they write on wednesday all but 15 minutes was devoted to this particular story. is it too much, howard? >> well, it's too much with too few facts. like lots of news organizations and television networks are going very heavy on the missing plane, and, you know, it's an important story, and there's huge global interest, i get that. cnn has gotten a significant ratings bump, and it's well equipped to cover this kind of story, but a lot of those hours are filled with theories and speculation and false starts, a couple of quick examples, bloomberg reporting that a suspected aircraft tail was found in the gulf of thailan

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. >> and on media buzz with howard kurtz comes up next right here on fox news channel.y. >> bye, everybody. >>> on the buzz beater this sunday, joe biden starts dropping hints about running for president no matter what hillary clinton does and gets a warm welcome from the media. >>> for vice president? say thank you. >> oh, i'd love that. >> but is there enough skepticism about biden? he will be 74 at election time and is it fair for pundit toes point out that hillary will turn 69 just before the election? stephen colbert makes fun of me for daring to raise the question. >> i know it's rude to talk about a woman's age, but that's not what i am doing. i am talking about people talking

howard kurtz looks at the controversial question of how old is too old. >> the age question is growingr than just a whisper. raised by former can dt and now fox news host mike huckabee. >> look, if she's going to be at an age where it's going to be a challenge for her. >> if hillary clinton is the democratic candidate for president she'll turn 69 just before the election. >> stephen: that's right, fox news is ready to project that in the 2016 presidential election hillary clinton will be two years older. (laughter) i mean come on! (cheers and applause) >> stephen: come on. come on! i mean 69, that is old. like old, old. way too old to be president. i mean she's going to be almost as old as ronald reagan was. but remember those were man years. men age gracefully like robert redford or a nice leather wallet. >> jim, jim, why did you put up two leather wallets, i don't-- okay, now plus, plus it just goes to the question of trust worthiness. during the benghazi hearings, she kept changing her story. first she said she was 65. next year she's 66. where does it stop? so obviously the develop

. >> media buzz with howard kurtz is coming up right now here on the fox news channel. >> stay healthyerybody. >>> on the buzz beater this sunday, the media speculation continues to build as we enter the third week of the missing malaysian plane. and at times, it's getting even more outlandish. >> when we go to church, the supernatural power of god. you deal with all of that. >> people are saying to me, why aren't you talking about the possibility? and i'm just putting it out there, that something odd happened to this plane, something beyond our understanding. >> my favorite theory, the 5% theory, is that it's because of some secret passenger with some secret cargo, the aircraft was hijacked and landed some place. >> the ratings are soaring, but how could the

until next week, good night, god bless and stay buzz with howard kurtz, that's next. >> on the buzz beaterns scramble to cover the russian invasion of crimea under difficult conditions. but are journalists giving us a clear picture of the crisis or are the pun didn'ts focusing on president obama? and why was the mainstream media so dismissive when mitt romney called russia president obama's -- foe. and bob costas says a media culture unfairly targeted him. >> i don't respect the heat

i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >>> there is no question of the internal investigation commissioned by chris christie's office has its shortcomings, mott notably, the inability to interview two top aides. >> we were told that these lawyers were hired in the public's interest, but judging by the massive report they put out today, it's pretty clear whose interest they're serving, christie's. >> this report is most likely flawed. there are disturbing connections between christie and the law firm he hired for the investigation. >> christie tried to claim vindication in interviews with megan kelly and diane sawyer, but there was pushback. >> i want to get to what everybody is saying about this report, words are used, whitewash, expensive scam that the taxpayers of new jersey just paid for your lawyers to find you blameless. as you know, the word bully, bullying comes up over and over again. have you asked yourself did i do anything to create the climate in which this happened? >> sure. spent a lot of time the last 11 weeks thinking about what did i do, if anything, to contribute to this.

howard kurtz, fox news analyst and host of media buzz this weekend.g? >> we'll scrutinize coverage of investigation of chris chris at this, commissioned by the governor's office. it has credibility problems and holes and key players would not cooperate with the investigators. what is fascinating, chris christie decide to sit down with diane sawyer. she is pretty aggressive with him. he has to deny he knew nothing about the closure on the lanes on the george washington bridge that he didn't create a climate which his aides thought would make him happy. on msnbc, acting like the prosecution, attacking this investigation, i say every nine or 10 minutes. jenna: nine or 10 minutes. you timed it out. you have a stop watch? >> it just seems that way, right. and i raised the question in a column this morning, excuse me, jenna. jenna: go ahead. >> even though this investigation may well be flawed, it is led by a former new york city deputy mayor, what if it turns out christie as far as his own involvement was telling the truth, the report is right? what do res

here is fox news media analyst and host of media buzz, howard kurtz. >> nate silver became a darlingleft in 2012. the statisticstatistics guru prn his "new york times" blog that barack obama had a 90% chance of winning re-election. that got him high-level recognition after also being right about which turkeys would win a white house pardon. >> once again, nate silver completely nailed it. >> silver has now moved his 538 blog to espn, and his latest prediction is that the republicans have a 60% chance of winning back the senate this fall. he points to president obama's unpopularity and the retirement of popular democrats. >> republicans need six seat. what's the projection, how many are they going to pick up? >> i would say exactly six, but probably six plus or minus five. >> they could pick up 11 seats? >> they could. >> now some democrats are angry at their former hero. the democratic senate campaign committee issued a detailed rebuttal snoeting his senate forecast in 2012 was wrong, and that was echoed on msnbc. >> you may recall silver inaccurately predicted the 2010 midterms and

here's fox news media analyst and host of media buzz, howard kurtz. >> ed snowden got a rousing reseptember by the south by southwest conference. beaming with a oversized copy of the constitution behind him. hot he didn't get was a single skeptical question. not by the moderator of the discussion, nor those submitted online in advance, not even a reference to him being a fugitive from justice. the former nsa contractor promply attacked the current and former directors. >> there have been two officials in america who have harmed our internet security, and actually, our national security. now, those two officials are michael hayden and keith alexander. >> he also ripped the director of national intelligence, james clapper, who some lawmakers have accused of misleading congress and denying the government was engaged in massive surveillance. >> we can't have officials like james clapper who can lie to everyone and face not even a criticism, not even a strongly worded letter. >> the white house declined comment, but president obama said clapper should have been more careful in his testimony and

and then i'm on howard kurtz's show, media was, sunday at 11:00, so i'm a busy beaver. >> in this dayrch 21, 1965, dr. martin luther king led the march from selma to birmingham, which was the largest and most violent march to get civil rights voting rights for blacks in the south. i'm proud to say my dad was in that group, but was not known as the two marches were leld before dr. king joined them, and the punks and the gestapo from the police department down there beat people and killed a minister. they're bums. i hope you're all gone now, but congratulations for dr. king doing it. a year later, they signed the >>> welcome back to "hannity," and this is a fox news alert, it is now day 14 of the greatest aviation mystery in history, and as the crews search the area, the mission is to locate the boeing triple 7. joining me is dan murphy, dan, what is the latest? >> well, sean, we know today marks two weeks since mh-370 disappeared. and they're still no closer to locating the debris, day three of this extensive search gets under way.

here's fox news media analyst and host of media buzz, howard kurtz. >> just when it seems the media hadsible theory for flight 370's disappearance, a cnn anchor found a rather creative angle. >> we go to church, the supernatural power of god. you deal with all of that. people are saying to me, why aren't you talking about the possibility, and i'm just putting it out there, that something odd happened to this plane? something beyond our understanding? >> just putting it out there. that, unfortunately, is what too many anchors and commentators and analysts have been doing, filling the air with theories and speculation. some of that has taken place on cnn, which has relentlessly covered the story, nearly wall to wall for ten days straight, and whose primetime ratings jumped nearly 100% last week, but fox news and other networks have hardly been immune. >> let's talk about the scenario of hijacking. could that account for the basic question here of an inability to have contact with the ground? yes, of course it could. >> i don't believe that this airplane crashed. i do believe it was hijack

howard kurtz, and he got dumped on. and now o'reilly and russia. i think that's 4,321st thing of russia on the show, but the fact of the matter is they're jumping on this, but they're still covering the story, aren't they? >> because people are tuned in and it's rating, and you say, we said everything four or five times, we need to keep saying it. we just need different people to start saying it. it's not unlike -- i'll be honest, cable networks who put on people to have an opinion on politics or business, who have no experience in it, nor background in it. and go ahead and have them, they're pundits. >> i resemble that remark. >> a lot of people say what is it about "the five." we have someone from the legal world, a democratic strategist, someone from the business world, a bush white house person. >> watch it. >> we have somebody who has edited magazines who's one of the funniest political satirests. other shows who put on people because they look good or they're young and everyone goes -- >> that's certainly not our -- >> no. >> let me take, tha

and then i'm on howard kurtz's show, media was, sunday at 11:00, so i'm a busy beaver. >> in this dayrtin luther king led the march from selma to birmingham, which was the largest and most violent march to get civil rights voting rights for blacks in the south. i'm proud to say my dad was in that group, but was not known as the two marches were leld before dr. king joined them, and the punks and the gestapo from the police department down there beat people and killed a minister. they're bums. i hope you're all gone now, but congratulations for dr. king doing it. a year later, they signed the bill. set your dvr. and bret baier is up next. >>> putin thumbs his nose at the international community, wrapping up crimea's annexation, and massing troops on ukraine's border. this is "special report." >>> good evening. i'm bret baier. the financial news may be tighten, but there's no sign vladimir putin is budging. in fact, russian troops are on the move. chief white house correspondent ed henry has our lead story tonight. >> acting triumphant once again, vladimir putin signed a bill today offi

howard kurtz on the frenzy. >> and why these veterans are just now receiving the military's highest awardzen army veterans now getting long delays recognition for their bravery. they will be presented with the medal of honor, the highest award. they were passed over due to discr discremati discremation -- discrimination -- >> reporter: the war was long over before they started looking at the fact no black veterans were given the highest award. 24 veterans today will be honored with the medal of honor. richard on the right is here to accept the award for his who was killed in vietnam. >> i would call every condy in the phone book but i could never fine them. my wife found a set of my orders where we were presented a star and his social security number was on there. >> reporter: they found a number of hispanic and jewish soldiers who deserved the medal. lendered cravitz is here to -- has his grand son lenny kravitz here to collect the award for him. >> listen to what rush limbaugh has to say about the flight mh370 -- >> that thing has been hijacked and is now a bomb -- this is creating a so

joining us now is howard kurtz. howard, break this down for us.es" and washington post, for instance, should be spanked for not initially covering this hearing in print because you had this extraordinary spectacle of the committee chairman darrel isa cutting off the mikes when alike ya cummings was going into a rant. that's not about the irs scandal, but once that happens, the sheer thee at ricks of it, i don't think i've ever seen anything like it before, was going to over-shadow everything else about this story. >> how often do you see when you look at these sort of -- i just told but that fox news poll, 71% of americans want this investigated. is there a disconnect between a poll like that and the disconnection you see on television? is it fireworks or not sexy enough to get the mainstream media coverage that we would like to see? >> i think the simple fact is -- because i would like to see congress get to the bottom of this. you can include me in the poll. is that the investigation has stalled. and when that happens, and when you have lois ler

joining us now, howard kurtz. you ever in your years of covering a media story seen a story this crazy? >> no. and it's absolutely bizarre. i understand the fascination with it. everybody has a theory, what happened to this plane? how could it disappear? did it land? did it crash? 239 people on board. but i think much of the media coverage has veered seriously off course as so much speculation, some of it reckless, has come to filled up all the airtime being devoted to this stories. >> here are some of the inaccuracies. reports of an airplane tail that turned out to be logs tied together. possible oil slick that had no ties to the aircraft. three large objects off vietnam's southern coast turned out to be nothing at all. >> there have been a lot of mistakes and a lot of false alarms. cnn, which has devoted the most airtime of this story and has gotten a significant bump in the ratings the other day was talking about lithium batteries in the cargo and whether that could have been responsible for the crash. everybod

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joining us now, howard kurtz, host of media buzz here on the fox news channel. this mandy grunw aye ld, right? >> among others, yes, one of they are key advisers. one of the documents we found said don't be defensive. the press is obviously watching to see if they can make you uncomfortable or testy. look for opportunities for humor. it's important that people see more sides of you and they often see only in very stern situations your behavior. be careful to be real. wow. how can you teach someone to be real? >> are you kidding me? every politician gets this sort of advice. you can't fake sincerity. there are other memos which hillary clinton is during her husband's presidency in the '90s was told we could all tell wonderful anecdotes about her, humanize her. the reason this is more than just historical fascination, mike, is a lot of this came up in her 2008 campaign for president where hillary clinton kept the national press kind of at arm's-length, was weary, was cautious, and a lot of people think that hurt her that we didn't really see hillary the human bein