This one is a shocker. Kurtz is a media critic, and left the Washington Post a few years ago to work at the Daily Beast.
Yesterday they cut him loose, a few days after making an erroneous report about NBA player Jason Collins. Although, according to this piece in Politico, his firing had nothing to do with that.
Sources at The Daily Beast also tell POLITICO that Kurtz was dropped in part because he had been dedicating much of his time to other ventures, including The Daily Download, a media criticism site. Kurtz also hosts a weekend media criticism show on CNN called "Reliable Sources."Media critics are slowly but surely becoming an endangered species in the mainstream media.
LATE UPDATE: Acccording to The Wrap, CNN is also reviewing whether or not to keep "Reliable Sources"
