News Organizations Stand with Fox News Against Obama
(Credit: Elizabeth Cromwell)
I give the “mainstream” media a hard time because they’ve bought and paid for that hard time–with gift wrapping included. Most of the time, they act like a Democrat public affairs office than journalists.
But when they do something right, they deserve to be commended for it, and they have.
The Obama Administration has of late declared open war on Fox News, the only national television news outlet that isn’t in Barack Obama’s lap with its tail wagging. But Obama’s war on Fox News is backfiring. It’s backfiring so badly that even otherwise liberal members of the media are standing by Fox News.
From CNS News:
Boehner said Democrats are targeting those who don’t support their health care plans. Those targets include Fox News and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
On Thursday, in a move that even Fox News’s competitors rejected, the Obama White House tried to freeze Fox News out of an interview with White House pay czar Kenneth Feinberg.
The White House said Feinberg would give interviews to members of the White House TV pool – with the exception of Fox News. The other members of the cost-sharing pool – CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS — objected.
“The Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV news networks consulted and decided that none of them would interview Feinberg unless Fox was included – and the administration relented, making Feinberg available to all five pool members and Bloomberg TV,” Fox News correspondent James Rosen reported.
Fox News has belonged to the pool since 1997.
The Obama administration’s attempt to marginalize Fox News includes boycotting “Fox News Sunday” and other Fox News shows. The president has been on Fox News just twice since January, far fewer appearances than he’s made on other TV news networks.
It’s great to see the other news organizations stand with a fellow news organization against this type of extreme intimidation and hostility.
This juvenile demeanor toward Fox News for not singing the socialist praises of the Obama Administration is so egregious, many people are comparing this administration to the Nixon Administration–saying this is worse than Nixon’s hostility toward the press.
With this kind of arrogance and attitude of unaccountability from the Obama administration, one has to wonder if things may end up like the Nixon Administration in more ways than one…
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