Howie Knows His Audience

Conflict-of-interest Kurtz identifies his readership base:

Re: City Paper: Shouldn't parodies or ficticious interviews be labeled as such? What's the Post's policy on this? (I'm thinking of Hank Stuever's column on William Hanna, for example, where he "interviewed" cartoon characters.)

Howard Kurtz: There's no "policy," except that a parody not labeled as such should be obvious to anyone with a sixth-grade education....

That's Howie, always looking out for his fans. But most people who've made it past middle school already know Kurtz is a joke.