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Eric Burns
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Eric Burns is the host of FOX News Channel's acclaimed Fox News Watch, a weekly half-hour program that "covers the coverage," reporting not on the major stories of the day but on the way the media are covering those stories. The recipient of an Emmy Award for media criticism, Burns kicked off his career as a correspondent for NBC News. He appeared regularly on NBC Nightly News and had his own segment called "Cross Country" on the Today show. For his work with NBC, Burns was named by the Washington Journalism Review as one of the best writers in the history of broadcast journalism, joining such luminaries as Edward R. Murrow, Charles Kuralt, Eric Sevareid, Harry Reasoner and David Brinkley. A script of his also appears in the prestigious college text, Writing News for Broadcast, which refers to Burns as an "artist" with words. In addition to being a commentator for Entertainment Tonight, as well as the host of Arts & Entertainment Revue, on the A&E cable network, Burns has written four critically-saluted books: The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol; Broadcast Blues: Dispatches from the Twenty-Year War Between a Television Reporter and His Medium; The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader and a short work of fiction, The Autograph. Burns has also written on matters of media and popular culture for such magazines as Reader's Digest, The Weekly Standard, Spy, TV Guide and Family Circle, in addition to such newspapers as the New York Post and Los Angeles Times.