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| | Media Circus by Howard Kurtz - A Book Review by Scott London |
 | | Howard Kurtz has created a name for himself in and around Washington covering the media beat for the Washington Post, and he is a frequent contributor to magazines like the Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Monthly, and The New Republic. |
 | | Although the fly leaf of Media Circus goes a little overboard, describing Kurtz variously as a "scrupulous reporter," a "dogged investigator," a "lucid writer," and "one of the handful of reporters who gets any respect these days," he is no doubt one of the more incisive journalists in the business today. |
 | | But it is an energetic and well-written book, rich with insights and anecdotes, and compared with most media critiques these days, that is saying a lot. |
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