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THE WHITE HOUSE’S REAL PROBLEM WITH FOX: “What most bothered the White House about Fox is that it c…
Instapundit —
... THE WHITE HOUSE’S REAL PROBLEM WITH FOX: “What most bothered the White House about Fox is that it caused inconvenient reporting by other news organizations. . . . In other words, their problem is not that Fox isn’t a real news organization, their problem is that it is.” ...
Press On
Cold Fury —
LIKE I SAID, “BABY STEPS” Rich Lowry : White House officials said they noticed a column by Clark Hoyt, the public editor of The Times, in which Jill Abramson, one of the paper’s two managing editors, described her newsroom’s “insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio.” The Washington Post’s executive editor, Marcus Brauchli, had already expressed similar concerns about his newsroom. White House officials said comments like those had focused them on a need to make their case that Fox had an ideological bent undercutting its legitimacy ...
Debating Fox
Ben Smith's Blog —
Smart, opposing posts on Fox today by Mickey Kaus and Rich Lowry.
Kaus, ever contrarian, agrees with the White House that Fox isn't a real news organization where even MSNBC and Breitbart.tv are because it's neither neutral -- which he's not all that impressed by anyway -- nor, fatally, independent:
I think Fox is also not neutral (which, again, doesn't bother me) but it's also not independent (which does). This isn't because it's owned by Rupert Murdoch--moguls are, typically among the more independent sorts. It's because it's run by Roger Ailes. I have ...
NYT: White House Attacking Fox Because It Is News, and That's the Problem
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... The fact that Fox News actually reports news that is important to Americans, thereby forcing other outlets to report the story, is what concerns the White House. As Rich Lowry stated at The Corner, "their problem is not that Fox isn't a real news organization, their problem is that it is." ...
