Howard Kurtz is the media reporter for <I>The Washington Post, and also writes a weekly column for the newspaper and a daily blog for its website. He is also host of CNN's <I>Reliable Sources, the longest-running media criticism show on television. His previous books include <I>New York Times bestselling <I>Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine (1998) and <I>The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street's Game of Money, Media, and Manipulation (2000). His book <I>Hot Air: All Talk All the Time (1996) was named by <I>Business Week as one of the ten best business books of the year and <I>Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers (1993) was chosen as the best recent book about the news media by <I>American Journalism Review. Kurtz joined <I>The Washington Post in 1981, and his work has appeared in <I>Vanity Fair, Newsweek, New York, and other national magazines. He lives with his family in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
