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It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.

As I was saying, I guess it's been a little while.

Welcome back to Media BuzzBeater.

For those of you who don't know why I disappeared and believe me, if I had known,

I would have said, hey, I'm not going to be on for a couple of weeks.

I have been fighting a nasty case of pneumonia. I'm over it now. I wouldn't say I'm

100%, but I'm getting there. Yesterday was the first day back on the air with media buzz.

I think it was a high energy show, not just because of me. I was pumped to get back in the

chair, but because the guests

were all good, and those segments are online, including an interview with Barry Weiss, the

fascinating founder of Free Press, which now has a million subscribers, who talks about how she got

over Trump derangement syndrome. She was sobbing at her desk when Donald Trump was elected in 2016.

Now she thinks he's done sub-good things.

I mean, she is, it's hard to characterize her.

I think left of center, but some right-leaning views as well.

Probably like most Americans.

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