Howard Kurtz is "amazed" by right-wing attacks on ABC News, he just won't say so in print

Here's Kurtz, the WashPost media critic, on the preemptive attacks on ABC for hosting forum on health care this week:

I continue to be amazed that ABC is being bashed for its White House health scare special before a single minute has aired--but not by the fact that the GOP is trying to score points in advance.

That was Kurtz's one-sentence take on the controversy. (It appeared in his daily online round-up of media news and notes.) What's curious is that, according to Nexis, Kurtz has not written a single word in the Washington Post itself about the right-wing attacks on ABC News. The media critic clearly thinks it's bogus to attack a news program before it's even been aired. Kurtz thinks it's nuts because every sane person who knows anything about journalism thinks it's nuts.

But Kurtz won't say so in print. Kurtz and his editors won't devote any space inside the influential Washington Post to call out the right-wing crazies for their war on ABC News. Every Beltway journalists knows the attack is groundless and absurd, but people like Kurtz don't air those misgivings too loudly.

Or else they might find themselves under the 'liberal media' gun.