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Fox Update
| Sat Oct. 24, 2009 7:43 AM PDT
Did the Treasury Department try to exclude Fox from conducting a pool interview with pay czar Kenneth Feinberg on Thursday? That was yesterday's story, but today it's all being chalked up to a big misunderstanding:
Feinberg did a pen and pad with reporters to brief them on cutting executive compensation. TV correspondents, as they do with everything, asked to get the comments on camera. Treasury officials agreed and made a list of the networks who asked (Fox was not among them).
But logistically, all of the cameras could not get set up in time or with ease for the Feinberg interview, so they opted for a round robin where the networks use one pool camera. Treasury called the White House pool crew and gave them the list of the networks who'd asked for the interview.
The network pool crew noticed Fox wasn't on the list, was told that they hadn't asked and the crew said they needed to be included. Treasury called the White House and asked top Obama adviser Anita Dunn. Dunn said yes and Fox's Major Garrett was among the correspondents to interview Feinberg last night.
Hmmm. This doesn't quite feel like it's the entire story, but for now I guess the ball is back in Fox's court. Did they initially ask for an interview with Feinberg or not? Inquiring minds want to know.
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If Fox says it...
Submitted by Capn Phealy on Sat Oct. 24, 2009 7:54 AM PDT.
...it must be bullshit. It's a rebuttable presumption, but hardly ever gets rebutted.
Misunderstanding my ass.
Submitted by jimBOB on Sat Oct. 24, 2009 8:11 AM PDT.
Misunderstanding my ass. Garrett got his interview, but the entire goddamn Village was all on about how Fox was excluded. Fox knew the story was BS, and merrily disseminated it anyway. Every last villager that made mistaken comments on this (which is most of them) out to issue an abject apology. Will they? Of course not.
Tapper and the NYT #$%&*! for Fox
Submitted by tpx on Sat Oct. 24, 2009 8:43 AM PDT.
Jake Tapper's quote about his sister organization, printed in the NYT, makes him and the Times whores and tools for Fox. Maybe that will be what finally delegitimizes Fox News from the rest of journalism, but that is just wishful thinking.
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Fry the skunks
Submitted by SteveHigh on Sat Oct. 24, 2009 10:35 AM PDT.
If you're looking for cracker-barrel wisdom, I'd substitute, "sometimes to get rid of the rats, you have to burn down the barn."
The same skunk line is the one used by Bill Clinton, "Don't get in an argument with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the roll," and it's behind the David Gergen notion that the Obama team made a blunder attacking Fox.
But as Bill Clinton observed in the context of Gay marriage, he is over 60 years old. So is Gergen. So am I.
Times, and public relations, have changed. As long as the idea prevails that the Washington Post is liberal, Limbaugh conservative, and that the truth must be in the middle, Fox must be destroyed.
Let me repeat that. Fox must be destroyed.
I repeat what I said in the
Submitted by Art Eclectic on Sat Oct. 24, 2009 9:16 AM PDT.
I repeat what I said in the last thread.
Weekly World News has "news" right in their name. Does this make them a legitimate news organization? They do, after all, provide fair and balanced reporting of where Elvis was most recently sighted.
Uh, there is no more WWN,
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat Oct. 24, 2009 10:17 AM PDT.
Uh, there is no more WWN, and hasn't been since 2007. But WND does have Les Kinsolving has a White House Press Reporter.
whole story or not, Kevin,
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat Oct. 24, 2009 9:18 AM PDT.
Fox got their interview, and by all accounts they got it before they decided to go for cheap points. Btw, to all of those likening this to Bush tactics of showing preferential treatment to certain networks, this is not even close.
The real question is, what
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat Oct. 24, 2009 10:20 AM PDT.
The real question is, what will Major Garrett have to say about this since it is claimed he is one of Fox's legit reporters, and since it was his face splashed all around saying it was a cabal.
The Obama administration
Submitted by Napoleon (not verified) on Sat Oct. 24, 2009 11:53 AM PDT.
The Obama administration needs to keep it up in pointing out that Fox is not a legit news outfit. The strategy is pure win for the left.
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Submitted by Detroit Dan on Sat Oct. 24, 2009 12:05 PM PDT.
Fox may be irrelevant before long, once people are no longer fooled by their shtick...
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Submitted by Trippp on Sat Oct. 24, 2009 12:17 PM PDT.
Kevin,
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