by Deb Cupples | I know, you know, we all know that Rupert Murdoch's Fox is all about editorializing, not reporting news.
More accurately, the folks tend to selectively report news items so as to support certain people's political (and personal-financial) agendas. If selective reporting (or omissions) won't work, the folks at Fox tend to spin facts or outright lie in order to promote their financial backers' agendas.
Mr. Murdoch has a constitutional right to editorialize -- and onlookers have a right to point out that Fox is editorializing.
All that said, a White House spokesperson has said it publicly, according to The Politico:
"White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that the Fox News Channel is 'not really a news station' and that much of the programming is 'not really news.'"
Again, no shock: we've known that for many years. The Politico continues:
"'I’m not concerned,' Axelrod said on ABC's 'This Week' when George Stephanopoulos asked about the back-and-forth between the White House and Fox News, founded by Rupert Murdoch.
"Mr. Murdoch has a talent for making money, and I understand that their programming is geared toward making money. The only argument [White House communications director] Anita [Dunn] was making is that they’re not really a news station if you watch even — it’s not just their commentators, but a lot of their news programming.
"It’s really not news — it’s pushing a point of view. And the bigger thing is that other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way, and we’re not going to treat them that way. We’re going to appear on their shows. We’re going to participate but understanding that they represent a point of view.”
Well said, and high time that prominent Washington folks were saying it!
Yesterday, Newsweek published an editorial by Jason Weisburg, which carries the title "The O'Garbage Factor: Fox Isn't Just Bad. It's Un-American." It's worth reading.
Obama administration today tried to exclude Fox News from the White House press pool. This attempted act contradicted the spirit and letter of the First Amendment, and the press fought back.
Thursday the White House made "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the White House pool except Fox News. The pool is the five-network group that shared the costs and duties of daily coverage of the presidency and has done so for decades.
But in a surprising show of decency, the four other members of the pool -- ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN -- told the White House if Fox were barred none of them would participate in the interview session.
The administration caved and made Feinberg available for Fox News.
White House press pool thwarts Fox News exclusion
http://www.examiner.com/x-19663-LA-Legal-Examiner~y2009m10d23-White-House-press-pool-thwarts-Fox-News-exclusion?cid=exrss-LA-Legal-Examiner
Posted by: flowerplough | October 27, 2009 at 12:15 AM
And "prominent Washington folks were saying it"? Washington folk, Deb? Them bright-faced, brilliant, beautiful people? Our betters? Prominent Washington folks were saying it?!?
4Q, Deb, and 4Q, Washington. If I was to use my sweet, stainless, Michigan-made 1911 to shoot about 2/3 of the prominent Washington folks, the country'd be improved.
Posted by: flowerplough | October 27, 2009 at 06:28 AM
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