Howard Kurtz of Fox News reviews the cover of Scott Pruitt

Fox News host, Howard Kurtz, has rebuffed panelists on his own show who blamed supporters of the medal for the resignation of Scott Pruitt, former head of the agency's protection agency. 39, environment, last week. Instead of standing side by side with his conservative guests, Kurtz said his network had failed to adequately cover the resignation of the director last Thursday, after more than a dozen or so hours of work. federal investigations into his conduct at the agency.

"Pruitt's resignation was barely covered on Fox in prime time or early the next morning … and I think that was a mistake," Kurtz said in his Sunday show, adding that he was talking about the exit of the administrator on Fox. The Ingraham show. (Ingraham, a prominent right-winger, publicly called for Pruitt to be fired just days before his ouster). Two conservative panelists on Kurtz's show argued that reporters from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere were motivated to conduct investigative journalism that exposed dozens of allegations of contrary behavior. to the ethics of Pruitt by their personal opposition to conservative agenda politics.

Pruitt "was trying to dismantle the EPA regulations of the Obama era and he accomplished a lot of that, and I think it fueled the investigative desires of journalists to try to to shoot him, and outside groups within the EPA, try to pull him out for that very reason, "said Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner." He's clearly made an easy target but he would not have had the same level of target if he had a different job within the administration. "

Mollie Hemingway, an editorialist at the conservative The Federalist, added that Pruitt's unusual living arrangement, in which he was paying $ 50 per night to rent a DC condo owned by the wife of an energy lobbyist, was approved by the ethics of EPA Bureau

The same senior ethics official later called for new investigations into the activities s of Pruitt and allegations that he abused his government position and misused taxpayers' money.

Kurtz has long criticized Pruitt's ethically questionable activities, which included directing government employees to help him with his personal chores and spending many government funds on luxury travel and security.