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White House Plans To Treat Fox News As An “Opponent”

Written by News One on October 12, 2009 5:33 pm

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From the New York Times:

Attacking the news media is a time-honored White House tactic but to an unusual degree, the Obama administration has narrowed its sights to one specific organization, the Fox News Channel, calling it, in essence, part of the political opposition.

“We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent,” said Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, in a telephone interview on Sunday. “As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”

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Her comments are only the latest in the volatile exchange between the administration and the top-rated network, which is owned by the News Corporation, controlled by Rupert Murdoch. Last month, Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, and David Axelrod, a senior adviser to President Obama, met for coffee in New York, in what Politico, which last week broke that news, labeled a “Fox summit.”

While neither party has said what was discussed, some have speculated that a truce, or at least an adjustment in tone, was at issue. (Mr. Ailes and Mr. Obama reportedly reached a temporary accord after a meeting in mid-2008.) But shots are still being fired, which animates the idea that both sides see benefits in the feud.

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Fox seems to relish the controversy.

“Instead of governing, the White House continues to be in campaign mode, and Fox News is the target of their attack mentality,” Michael Clemente, the channel’s senior vice president for news, said in a statement on Sunday. “Perhaps the energy would be better spent on the critical issues that voters are worried about.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    They should make ‘em cover all his events and statements via-third party

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TMAC_35000/ TMAC_35000

    Did they just now figure this out?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    About damn time… I mean really!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    only problem with this is, like it or not, it is freedom of press. Don’t they have the right to broadcast the way they want to?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    lol… its true _A_ but just like baring arms & slavery the constitution dont support those so why should freedom of the press be any different

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    @ _A_ to a cetain extent but the FCC can censor as needed.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CamuiMS/ CamuiMS

    I think they’d be better off just ignoring them. Like they don’t even exist. Don’t even give those 4sshats the time of day. It’s funny when Obama goes out and doesn’t invite them as he does other members of the press (not calling Fox News a part of the press or even real news). They clamor about him only want his attention. You don’t give obnoxious brats (no matter how old they are) attention.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slit_lcka005/ slit_lcka005

    What the White house means is this news organization, doesn’t kiss our asses, doesn’t agree with every little thing we say or do, so now we’re going after them. Typical, of the quasi-facist tone this administration is taking. I won’t tolerate newsspeak, that’s why I only watch FOX news. Most of you yahoos that comment in the negative have never even watched the channel, so your opinions are pretty much s**t, but those that do, know the only guy over there that seem to have something personal against Obama is Sean Hannity. I stopped watching his show after Colmes left.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    @slit_icka

    Thank you

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    lol @ Slit….Colmes only averaged 10 words a show when he was there, they replaced him with more commercials

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mr_Spann/ Mr_Spann

    Check out my video on YouTube about how Fox promotes racial stereotypes of black people, by having blacks do the talking.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo0z69ruE8g

    Fox has been doing this for years. AND I WATCH FOX. This has nothing to do with kissing ass. This has everything to do with being a propaganda machine.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/cwm299/ cwm299

    Attacking the media worked for Nixon and Agnew didn’t it?

    Third paragraph from the end tells the story, both sides are benefiting from the attention. Fox gets more readers and the administration keeps people distracted from the real news.

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