White House officials to appear on Fox News

[jeffbr]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/18/AR2009101802260.html?hpid=topnews

White House officials to appear on Fox News
By Krissah Thompson
Monday, October 19, 2009

After impugning the objectivity of Fox News and saying that they would begin to treat the network as "an opponent," White House officials said Sunday that they will allow administration officials to appear on the network.

Last week, White House communications director Anita Dunn said Fox News, which airs the shows of several conservative commentators, functions "almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. . . . We don't need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave."

Her comments sparked a fresh battle between the White House and the network. In response to the criticism, Fox News executive Michael Clemente said in a statement that President Obama's aides had decided to "declare war on a news organization."

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Actions speak louder than words.

[Jeep789]

1. BS The headline is misleading and your comment

unwarranted. They never said they would keep anyone in the administration from appearing. All they've said is that it is not a real news organization. No where did the White House contradict their statements. And why are you reading The Post?

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. In the proper context

Policy debate, not 'news'.

[Pirate Smile]

3. Their actions were that they sent an administration official to every Sunday show today EXCEPT Faux.

[lpbk2713]

4. Just as RWers insist on saying 'Democrat Party' ...

I think Obama Admin officials and all Dems for that matter should from now on just simply say "Fox" instead of Fox News.

Fox holds nothing in common with a 'real' news outlet. And it is common knowlege that they are the mouthpiece for the GOP.

[Jeep789]

5. Personally, I refer to Faux as simply noise

as in, 'Please turn that noise off'.