A presidential spokeswoman said, “We don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.” Full Story »
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This Times could have made this a good piece, by taking the time to provide some kind of objective data on how Fox News has covered the administration, vis a vi other television news organizations. But it instead substituted a he-said, she-said approach which is neither insightful or informative.
Mr. Beck, whose 5 p.m. program consistently draws three million viewers, is a “cultural phenomenon now,” Mr. Shine said. But this success has come at a price: he is the ... More »
The author examines an escalating verbal battle between the White House and Fox. Not only do both sides bring their arguments, the author also looks at potential reasons why both sides might be interested in such an escalation.
While principally I think that politicians need to be able to take some criticism, it was especially enlightening to hear the arguments why both ... More »
“We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent”. Anita Dunn, White House. Chris Wallace [calls] the administration “the biggest bunch of ... More »
Stelter struggles to maintain an air of objectivity in the piece and in doing so, seems to lose sight of the larger issues being put forth about the network by the Obama administration. Simply because a television program has large numbers viewers does not make that program somehow more relevant, accurate or fair. Stelter would have increased his competency on the piece by presenting additional examples of why the Obama administration has reached the conclusions about Fox news ... More »
This is a topic of great concern for millions of people, and a threat to our consensus Democracy ,how the public airwaves can be used as an attack and propaganda arm of the Republican Party and be paid for by supposedly politically neutral national advertisers.
It is a story that needs to be told but I left wondering why the Obama administration even pays lip service to Fox?
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