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Media critic Howard Kurtz, who usually criticizes other journalists for their errors, has made a few of his own lately including a whopper about Jason Collins.

On his program, Reliable Sources on Sunday, he gave a pretty thorough apology for the Jason Collins one and then answered questions from two other press critics about that one and some others. You can read about it and watch the segment here. I thought the questioning was brutal, perhaps more so than the offenses warranted, and that Kurtz's answers were about as good as anyone could have done in that situation. I wasn't a big fan of the guy before, ironically because I don't think he's sufficiently harsh on others but I was impressed with him here. I wish there was some way that everyone who reports on what's happening in the world could be grilled like this from time to time.