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CNN gets its money's worth

July 31, 2009 10:36 am ET by Jamison Foser

Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz caps off another week of "Media Notes" columns without mentioning CNN president Jonathan Klein's dishonest defense of Lou Dobbs' Birther conspiracy theories.  Kurtz's online columns totaled 12,299 words this week -- not one of them about Klein, or Dobbs.  (Kurtz did mention CNN once -- when he used his Washington Post column to plug his CNN television show.)

It's enough to make you wonder whether the money CNN pays Kurtz is a salary -- or hush money?

Either way, it's a spectacular conflict of interest.

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