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The story of Jason Collins as misread by Howard Kurtz

Like most other people who have heard about the story, Howard Kurtz has an opinion on NBA player Jason Collins coming out via an article in Sports Illustrated. Unlike most other people, however, Kurtz writes for The Daily Beast, and unfortunately for him, it appears as if he didn't read the entire Sports Illustrated article before commenting on it.

In his "piece," Kurtz wrote:

"He has always struggled with being gay, the NBA player said to Sports Illustrated and George Stephanaopoulos, drawing rave reviews for his candor and a congratulatory call from President Obama.

Except that he left out one detail.

He was engaged. To be married. To a woman."

Obviously, Mr, Kurtz left out one detail from his "piece" - he didn't read the entire article before writing about it.

In the Sports Illustrated article, Collins wrote:

"When I was younger, I dated women. I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I needed to marry a woman and raise kids with her. I kept telling myself the sky was red, but I always knew it was blue."

It appears as if Mr. Kurtz skipped over that one detail.

On that note, here's one more detail Kurtz isn't going to much care for - in light of the before-mentioned flub, The Daily Beast has decided to let him go.

Due to this, I'm guessing the man's next writing will be entitled, "It Hurtz Being Kurtz." I don't know about that necessarily, but it certainly hurts reading Kurtz.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/01/howard-kurtz-jason-collins_n_3196401.html

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/05/daily-beast-drops-howie-kurtz-163130.html
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