By Paul Farhi, Thursday, May 2, 4:19 PM

Howard Kurtz, a prominent critic of the news media, became news himself Thursday.

The CNN host and former Washington Post reporter “parted company” with the Daily Beast, his primary employer, a day after stirring controversy with a commentary about Jason Collins, the NBA player who recently disclosed that he is gay.

In the commentary, Kurtz mistakenly accused Collins of leaving out “one detail” in Collins’s Sports Illustrated essay disclosing his homosexuality. The detail, Kurtz said, was that Collins “was engaged. To be married. To a woman.”

In fact, Collins had included that information prominently in his essay and in a subsequent interview with ABC News.