washingtonmonthly.com - 10/23/2009
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WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE?.... Time's Joe Klein is the latest of many high-profile media figures to criticize the White House for daring to consider Fox News a partisan news outlet. Like many of his colleagues, Klein doesn't question the accuracy of...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/23/2009
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Adding to the Fox News v. White House
feud today is a dust-up over an interview with...
pay czar Ken Feinberg. Turns out, it was a sort of miscommunication, but the White House adds that if they had left Fox out it would be a case of "Not that there's ...
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WH: We're Happy To Exclude Fox, But Didn't Yesterday ...
huffingtonpost.com - 10/24/2009
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A Fox News executive told the Huffington Post
Saturday that the network "absolutely" did request an interview...
with Obama administration "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg and that the White House acknowledged a mistake on the part of a Treasury department ...
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Fox News Exec On Attempted Feinberg Interview Snub: We ...
atlargely.com - 10/24/2009
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Defining the Problem
The Moderate Voice —
... Well, sort of. But not exactly. The problem is that Fox diverts attention from the actual news because Fox is not actually a news organization, and the rest of the corporate media plays the role of enabler by going along with the polite fiction that Fox is anything other than an entertainment and talk show media outlet. As Steve Benen points out, the “war” was launched on the day Pres. Obama took office, but the mass media took very little notice — until the White House decided to drop the pretense that Fox was ...
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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Calculated Risk: Freddie Mac: Delinquency Rate Rises to 3.33 Percent
Steve Benen on why whatever you are paying to read Time--even if you are paying zero--you are paying too much
Time's Joe Klein is ...
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