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Anita Dunn may be gone from the White House but her successor feels the same way she did about Fox News.
From TVNewser
The White House has a new communications director — Dan Pfeiffer — but the message is the same when it comes to Fox News Channel.
During a video interview today with The New York Times‘ The Caucus blog, Pfeiffer was clear about the White House position on Fox News:
“I have the same view of Fox that Anita [Dunn] had, which is that Fox is not a traditional news organization. They have a point of view. That point of view pervades the entire network both the opinion shows, like Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly, but also through the newscasts during the day,” Pfeiffer said.
“We don’t feel an obligation to treat them like we would treat a CNN or an ABC or an NBC or a traditional news organization. But there are times when it would make sense to communicate with them and appear on the network.”
Fox News responded tonight: “Obviously new to his position, Dan seems to be intent upon repeating the mistakes of his predecessor… and we all remember how well that turned out.”
After last night’s stunning victory by Scott Brown in Massachusetts which will likely result in the scrapping of the president’s health care bill the strategy to ignore Fox or relegate them to a lesser role will only continue to backfire on them as they shield themselves from a large and influential audience.
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7 Comments for New W.H. Comm Director Has a Dim View of Fox News
I guess the Democratic/Progressive Party just doesn’t get it yet. They will now become “unemployed” in their re-election bids!
So now there’s a difference between bias and point of view? As the White House sees it, in order to be considered a “traditional news source”, one can be biased, but not have a point of view? Hmmm!!! Somebody change that guy’s diaper.
Look for this war to escalate not just at FOX News, but all of FOX. This will not be at the local stations (which has a former HLN working for the Atlanta FOX affiliate, Denise Dillion), but also with the sports (NFL on FOX which Obamaite DeMaurice Smith will force NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, husband of FOX News anchor Jane Skinner, to drop as part of the collective bargaining agreement next year even though the TV contracts don’t expire until 2013.) and the Cable channels (FX, SpeedTV).
You can kiss “COPS”, “The Simpsons”, and “America’s Most Watned” goodbye if this happens.
I guess the new communications director Dan Pfeiffer did not see the results of the NPR poll that first came out in Oct. 2009 and has continued to grow, exponentially. It apparently had an initial lag in it’s responses, but then take a look at what has happened since!
You may or may not have seen this, but the article and emails reads:
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“Fox News is losing in an NPR Poll, but with the power of the Internet we can turn that around in a few hours.
If you haven’t heard this, the White House is accusing Fox News of not being a legitimate source of news, calling them biased, etc. They have tried to block Fox reporters from news conferences, etc., NPR has put a survey online for us to voice our opinion.. Currently it is 71% in favor (Not any more!) of the White House, because mainly liberals log on to the NPR website.
If Fox loses this poll you can bet Obama will mention it as support for his attack on Fox.
Let’s show them how we feel about honest conservative news reporting..
To vote log onto:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/10/in_white_house_vs_fox_news_war.html
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I hope you are able to copy and paste the NPR link into your address line and make your vote. But, if it doesn’t work, just go to the NPR.org web site and search for the poll.
Paul
This doesn’t really relate to the topic but since sarah palin is now a fixed news hack I’ll bring it up. Palin to campaign for mccain in 2010. haha. All you palin supporters are suckers and pathetic. I’ve written why she’s a phony. JD Hayworth is a real conservative and I hope he shames mcain and palin. Palin is really a disgrace.
Robert Thompson: You’ve hit it on the nose. What the heck is the difference between point-of-view and bias?
I was listening to CNN last night and Wolfy was using “We democrats”….blah blah blah.
Of course this new guy thinks CNN is a legitimate news source. They are bought off to suck up to Obama and his socialist agenda.
Before this Obama fiasco, I hadn’t realized how many gullible people there are in these United States.
The White House has a dim view of Fox News?? It kinda looks like the White House has a case of dim views themselves and is not recognizing what the American people want or “do not want. Drop the Progressive agenda because socialism and Marxism is not what America is about. You are not in touch with the people. The Free Market, capitalist system is here to stay and if the Obama administration doesn’t want to get aboard, so be it. Their next elections will remove them from the scene.