Why Is the White House Targeting Fox News?
By Bronwyn's Harbor on October 14, 2009 at 11:55 PM in Current Affairs
(bumped up from this morning)
You may have heard recently that the White House has been targeting Fox News. No doubt, in their minds, they have their reasons for it. Why that might be is a mystery to me and, critically, I find it utterly antithetical to the Constitution that protects the Fourth Estate.
One analyst I heard thinks that the White House knows that FNC (Fox News Channel) has a core constituency of viewers who will always watch FNC. But, the analyst says, the White House is worried about the large number of Independent and Democratic voters who also enjoy watching FNC. (We can count most of the NQ writers in that group; two years ago, we avoided FNC, and then we saw that FNC was the ONLY network that treated Hillary Clinton with respect.) The analyst claims that the White House’s attacks on FNC are designed to make both Independents and Democrats feel uncomfortable about watching a news channel that it claims is wholly biased.
Another analyst noted, with some shock, that the WH attacks are on the hard news reporting, not just the Glenn Beck, Hannity and other opinion-oriented shows. That is entirely unfair. Reporters like Jim Angle and Carl Cameron deliver in-depth reports on the news unlike few others in the news business.
Bret Baier pointed out that every single request by all Fox News programs to interview President Obama has been rejected. Why is unclear to me. I recall Obama’s interview by Bill O’Reilly during the campaign; O’Reilly was firm but gentlemanly. Obama cannot claim that he’s had bad experiences on the network, so why is he afraid to face FNC interviewers now?
Here are two excellent FNC videos that discuss the attempts to marginalize and stigmatize the network — I particularly recommend the second video featuring a SANE Democrat who thinks the White House’s attacks are “disturbing”:
When Washington Attacks (featuring Glenn Beck and guest Pat Caddell, one of the more sane, and extremely knowledgeable, Democratic analysts)
Bottom line, perhaps the White House doesn’t appreciate that there is one news outlet that does NOT portray President Obama in constantly rosy, glowing terms at all times? Or that they are actually looking into the cost of the Obama policies? What do you think their reasons are?
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