Howie Kurtz, he of the "let's not get into people's
professional 'private' lives unless they have something to do with Clinton' is at it again:
TODAY
Howard Kurtz:
I'm not a fan of secretly recording conversations with a friend and then releasing them to the world.
THEN
Kurtz speaking of Linda Tripp's secret telephone recordings of Monica Lewinsky, in Michael Isikoff's Book "Uncovering Clinton."
"I would have listened to those tapes in a heartbeat," Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post's media critic, told me months later.
Secretly taping friends and releasing it to the public is low. It was low when Tripp did it, it's low now that Doug Wead has done it.
For Kurtz, however, it's only low when done against his Republican pals. Remember, he IS married to Shari Annis, a Republican political operative and contributing writer to the National Review.
Update: Kurtz contact me to state that 1) his wife no longer works in Republican politics (and only did before they were married in 2003) and 2) while he never did publicly state that Tripp betrayed Monica, he considers himself one of the few mainstream journalists who criticized the press for their coverage of the Clinton scandals, sending, as an example, a January 27, 1998 WaPo piece titled "In a Blizzard of Allegations, Did the Media Throw Caution to the Wind?"