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White House won't muzzle the Fox

The White House offensive against Fox News has really cowed the right-wing network ...

... not.

On the contrary, Fox loves it and stands to gain public support.

For top White House officials like David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel to try to enlist other news organizations in their anti-Fox campaign just underscores the conservative contention that the Obama administration aims to manipulate the media.

It's also a strategy likely to backfire, as this piece by Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawick demonstrates.

With all the challenges the White House faces, from unemployment to Osama bin Laden, is Fox News really Public Enemy No. 1?

I don't watch Fox News and can't offer an opinion about the quality of its programming. But I'm sure not impressed when government uses its bully pulpit in an obvious attempt to influence any news organization's approach to journalism.

I don't think the Obama administration has been given a very tough time at all by the media as a whole. I guess the White House still isn't satisfied and would like to stifle critical coverage.

Here's a news flash: It ain't going to happen. 

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Connie Mack Jr

October 19, 2009 - 12:43 pm EDT

I don't watch Fox News and can't offer an opinion about the quality of its programming* Doug

Good for you! It will lower your political IQ to 3 and if you watch the Glenn Beck Show, you will be put into a Straight Jacket by Alien Lizards and shipped to Mexico........I believe that is the problem with the Obama White House high level staff....You don't cast Swine flu Pearls before Morons and expect postive results.......

Brekka

October 19, 2009 - 1:07 pm EDT

You would be much better reading politico.com specifically the Ben Smith's blog about how Anita Dunn states how she controls the media. You can also she her You-Tube video. The original article is by Aaron Klein. Anita was speaking to the Domincan Government and attempts to describe how she "controls the media" and how she manipulated the media to get President Obama elected. I found the article WND. (just case anyone wants to fact check because Politico has successively made it hard to find Ben Smith's article.) Although, The Swamp carries the video now (I think). So, Doug how was the News and Record "controlled" by Ms. Dunn? (Just kidding).

Doug Johnson

October 19, 2009 - 1:30 pm EDT

I do watch Fox News only.
I like to hear both sides of a issue.
With out Fox,how would we know about Acorn, Van Jones, and etc.
God knows the liberal media, will not inform you of nothing a liberal does wrong.
That includes your paper.
Well that may not be the whole truth, sometimes 3 months after the Tibet monthly tells us what shams are going on in Raleigh, your paper may come up to bat.

tonymo

October 19, 2009 - 2:38 pm EDT

Hey Doug (Clark)

I always wondered why you were so unaware of so many things going on in our country country today. Thats why you were clueless about the ACORN videos showing how vile, and corrupt they really are, or about the many self-described Communists, Anarchists, "truthers," and anti Capitalists that are "advising" the Community Organizer. Let's see, Anita Dunn, who recently praised the affable Mao Tse Tung, calling him one of her two favorite "philosophers," and praise his remarkable revolution. Oh it was high school students she was addressing!

Then we have/had (some were forced to leave after Fox profiled them) Van Jones, Mark Lloyd who praised Hugo Chavez's "incredible" revolution, and said he's against the "Fairness Doctrine," because it "doesn't go far enough!"
How about Harold Koh, who wants to subjegate us to international courts as the final arbiter! Then there is "climate" czar Carol Browner whose name had to be scrubbed from the web site of the interantional Socialist organization to which she is/was a member!

The Reichstag was really miffed because Fox News fact checked information supplied them by an administration spokesperson. This administration is the poster organization for the need for fact check sites! This same group praised CNN as a "true" news network shortly after CNN fact checked a SNL COMEDY skit that mocked Der Furher!

This tryannical bunch attacks Fox for the same reason they attack doctors, the Chamber of Commerce, Price Waterhouse, Humana, the insurance industry,Wall Street (except their beloved Goldman Sachs), big business except GE whose NBC network has become merely the Obama Public Relations Group, and only recently stopped doing business with Iran, and who is in line to benefit in a huge way from the Cap & Trade scam.

Oh, there's much more, but some have their heads buried in the sand, or are too "busy" to find out the real damage being done gto our country. Even the AP had an article in this publication yesterday about the potential catastrophic consequences of our massive debt burden!

Brekka

October 19, 2009 - 3:46 pm EDT

You have done very well, with your news items. I just wanted to add Harry Reid's admission that the Health Care bill will actually cost 2 trillion and not the one trillion he used to propose.

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