Reply #29: BEWARE THIS SOURCE: Howie Kurtz did not get a raise when he left the WaPo in October.

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Howie was a hack at the WaPo, but he's now an even more underpaid hack at Tina Brown's rag. He may be right about the threat to fire Olbermann, but, otherwise, I wouldn't give this one a lot of credibility. Kurtz is undoubtedly looking to make a splash in his new media, and I do not believe he's a big fan of Keith. http://www.tbd.com/articles/2010/10/howard-kurtz-leaves-washington-post-for-daily-beast-18107.html

Well, did you get a raise, Mr. Kurtz? "The decision was not made on a financial basis." According to the media-beat vet, the appeal of the jump was to be able to shape the Beast site, in a way that he could never hope to at the Washington Post. "It's a smaller battleship than the Washington Post," he says.