The White House escalated its offensive against Fox News on Sunday by urging other news organizations to stop “following Fox” and instead join the administration’s attempt to marginalize the channel. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN Full Story »
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The article documents the White House's escalation of its anti-Fox News campaign. David Gergen and other experienced political observers say this is a fight that the Obama administration should avoid.
Media columnist David Carr of the New York Times warned that the White House war on Fox “may present a genuine problem for Mr. Obama, who took great pains during the campaign to depict himself as being above the fray of over-heated partisan squabbling.”
The last time a White House news coup like this was attempted was by Spiro Agnew. See link.
Any news organization that sides with the government over a rival medium will invite scrutiny into its own bias.