The Next Democratic President Will Have to Deal With Fox News

[bluestateguy]

Fox News has a lot more power and reach than it did during the Clinton Administration. Fox News will not give the next Democratic president any honeymoon at all. In fact, they will begin hacking away before inauguration day. The next Democratic president, whoever it is, must have a straegy for dealing with Fox News. If necessary, our president should consider cutting Fox out of the loop if their coverage becomes too hostile: taking away their White House press credentials, having the Administration boycott all Fox shows and urging all Democrats to do the same.

[lcordero]

1. They should take WH press credentials as soon as Bush

leaves the White House.

[arcane1]

2. maybe the next DEM can go Excecutive-Order crazy like the chimp did

first- make the FCC "guidelines" into actual RULES, so that FOX and their ilk cannot legally tell known lies on the air anymore


let's tweak the FCC ownership rules a little more, too


though I want to hope that these sychophants will be thoroughly discredited by that time, I'm not getting my hopes up. I expect the next Dem to get hammered twice as much as Shrub should've been hammered!

[ElementaryPenguin]

3. Quite true, but hopefully Fox News will have to deal with a...

Democratic President who's determined to see to it that the Fairness Doctrine be strictly adhered to!!
http://www.twf.org/News/Y1997/Fairness.html

[deutsey]

12. And a progressive network

www.anshellmedia.com

[vi5]

4. Again, no matter how much lip service they give or are given...

the fact is that an average of 2.3 million viewers is barely 1% of the american population. They only have as much power as people give them, and apparently that is not very much. When you consider that some of those 2.3 million viewers are dems/libs like us who just have masochistic streaks in us their numbers hardly represent some kind of political zeitgeist.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

5. Democrats should answer every FOX question like this:

"I realize this is FOX News, the Republican network, ..."

[ObaMania]

13. Great preface!

I was thinking the same thing myself. Either that or the press secretary can respond to FAUX criticizm, comments, stories with "you need to take everything they say with a grain of salt.."

Or maybe say that they are more for entertaining and should not be taken as serious journalism.

The first order of business though for the press secretary is to kick all FAUX correspondents to the back of the press briefing room.

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[MarianJack]

6. Clinton's "Honeymoon"

Don't you remember that President Clinton (Boy, do I miss saying THAT!) was hammered from the first day he was in office. I remember seeing news stories about "The Failed Clinton Presidency" when he was in office for less than 48 hours.

My point being, the reality is that for some reason, the press LOVES the bushes and has it in for any Democratic president. Perhaps the secret is to do as the republicans do; treat the press with absolute contempt and get them to do a collective ass-kissing as a result.

[CBHagman]

9. The hammering began before the inauguration

They picked apart his first two nominees for attorney general (Kimba Wood and Zoe Baird, anyway?). The press set up a series of topics which were treated as highly controversial from day one.

Also, Fox is not the only problem for the next Democratic president. The corporate media is not going to be tender to anyone to the left of Ghenghis Khan, like it or not, so we have to really keep on our toes.

[harper]

11. Cokie Roberts

I remember hearing Cokie Roberts talking about the "Failed Clinton Presidency" on NPR BEFORE Clinton was sworn in as President. I couldn't believe it! They were talking about Clinton's transition team and were saying that it's poor showing fortold a failed presidency. I called a friend and told her Clinton was in trouble...the press was against him. And I was right, they had it in for him from day one (or before).

[damnraddem]

7. Faux News shouldn't be treated differently from any other like media ...

outlet: the National Enquirer, for example. Given them the same access.

[bandy]

8. if and when * goes down -

Faux will too.

[SoCalDem]

10. They are the video version of National Enquirer..

Is there a WH correspondent from teh Enquirer??? 'nuff said :)