So it appears the White House administration is not very pleased with Fox News’ coverage of them and their policies. Somehow, I seriously doubt that this is the first time that a political entity has felt that a segment of the press was not on the same page as them idealogically. I am also fairly certain that this is not the first time an administration has made disparaging remarks about that segment of the press. So what is different this time around? The difference this time around is that a growning number of people are not only paying attention to what that segment of the press is saying, but are actually taking action based on that “News”.
The White House asserts that Fox is unfairly slanted to the right. FOX acknowledge that many of their opinion based shows are conservative in nature, but their news segments remain completely unbiased. To be honest, I do not watch enough of FOX News to be able to make a good judgement call in this one. The few times I have watched FOX news, I have noticed that the news is delivered mostly from a conservative perspective but does not seem to be slanted in any specific direction. I did watch FOX more than usual during the recent campaigns and noticed as many negative stories about Senator McCain as I did then Senator Obama. Even so, if their news program are somewhat right leaning, why is the White House so upset? Any television program has to garner ratings to stay alive and a News network is no exception. FOX News fills an important gap that CNN and MSNBC ignored for years as they became more and more entrenched in pushing the liberal agenda. FOX saw a need and filled it. Based on recent ratings, this seems to be working quite well for them. As you can see in the link below, FOX is beating every other major news network by a very large margin.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-tops-cnn-msnbc-hln-combined-in-prime-time-monday/
The White House staff is a little upset also about the manner in which FOX conducts itself during interviews. On a recent Sunday morning show, Chris Wallace actually had the audacity to call out a certain government administrator on certain facts. Unlike other commentators this woman had encountered, Chris had actaully done some research prior to the interview and was ready with some difficult questions. Wow! Do they teach that in Journalism school or did Chris come with that idea all on his own? White House Communications Director Anita Dunn actaully stated that she had never heard of any Sunday Morning news show host fact checking a guest. Maybe she has been watching the wrong news shows.
The reality of it all is that people are naturally prone to fact check people that they don’t agree with. If Anita Dunn does not want the administration to be fact checked then she should ensure she keeps her folks off of FOX and stick with more agreeable networks like MSNBC. Again, I don’t see much of a problem with this. If this administrattion continues to be this opaque vice transparent as they promised many months ago, they will likely find themselves looking for work like many of the rest of us in a few years.
Rich
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All corporate news agencies are entertainment. If they reported on the real news people would be in the streets.
I tend to agree Mike, for real news I think most of us rely on our local stations and newspapers. And the internet of course!
First, of course this is not the first time, in the past the snubs may have been direct but where almost never publicized. One reporter would step out of line and ask an inappropriate question or give harsh and overly critical commentary and the White House would deny access to that same agency’s correspondent, until a suitable disposition occurs. (Apology, firing, or separate favorable article).
Second, the fact check incident was a little harsh and rude. I don’t mind Chris Wallace fact checking anyone but the woman who was thrown out to face him was prepared to say just a couple of lines and reduce the official position regarding the VA policy on end of life issues from what Chris was saying they were to what the administration wanted to say it was. Of course whenever someone starts playing these little cat and mouse games it can go by the script or, as in this case, blow up in your face. The woman was chosen to make this point because she was an injured veteran of the gulf war, and a VA services recipient, and if she says a VA policy is so, who would question it. Well, obviously Chris will, and with the gloves off. I couldn’t care less about this, and neither can the administration. This is the red herring, the administration is more upset about the dismantling of his Czar coven and the derailing of policy by use of some truth and some factually distorted versions of their stated intent as well as the outright disrespect given to the man in the Oval Office. And since the politicians on the right have been largely marginalized they need to go after the mouth pieces instead.
I am not saying that Fox is wrong for their coverage or defending the White Houses position, but the President is not ever going to be able to pull out the race card without reducing himself to a whiner, so when Glenn Beck showed up on Fox and Friends one Sunday morning and said the President had a “deep seated hatred of the white culture” he called the President out to use the race card. Jimmy Carter followed but not the President.
Fox has continued to play their game and the White House is playing right into their hands at this point. Fox’s ratings will go up in the short term because they are the news right now, and the President loses another battle by doing this. 6 months down the road when Fox news cannot get an interview or the time of day from the administration, or any other Democrat (like that will happen, all politicians are media whores)they will start getting frustrated. If the current administration can make enough of a flap it will hurt Fox, but it will take a long time and the Majority Whip might have to use his namesake to keep the cattle in line.
And as far as real news, we should only pay attention to the independent film makers who are all hip and wise to the NWO takeover of everything, anyone else cannot be trusted, and anything that can be used as evidence of fact is probably planted for us to find, unfounded accusations are the best way to go!
Was that a NWO comment form Chris? I am shocked!
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