Posted on 01/20/2010 6:56:06 AM PST by AIM Freeper
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
...but of course, MSNBC and CNN do not have a particular point of view.....
They just don’t get it. Do they? Simply amazing.
That’s OK, I have a dim view of this WH.
I want to tank ever person in Mass that voted for Scott Brown they made history last night and took their state back from the criminal fools that ran it.
Isn’t Pfeiffer the husband of Anita Dunn?
Demon-cRATs are nothing if they are not inbred.
It probably explains a lot of their loose grasp on cognitive reality.
The WH? Isn’t that where we’re sending our elementary school dropouts?
I could care less if a news organization has a point of view. It is inevitable. There is no such thing as ‘objective’ reporting. Reporters are human beings and human beings have points of view that inform, even if subconsciously, their perspective. So what.
Fox comes closest by at least being willing to provide a forum for opposing views, even on the opinion shows. But the idea that the rest of the networks are unbiased is simply a lie. The myth of objective journalism died with William Randolph Hearst. And good riddance.
If journalists would simply show some courage (as if) and make their political affinities public then viewers can take that into account when listening to them. I don’t care. I am an adult and it is my responsibility to try and sort out the information that comes to me.
It is time for journalism to drop the pretense. And that includes Fox.
No, but he replaced her when her husband got his WH job.
Oh? That verbal run from Olbermann was not a point of view?
Yet Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Rachel Maddow don’t have a point of view? Oh, that’s right, they don’t have a point of view because it’s the same point of view the White house has. I get it now.
The Democrats are severely out of touch, deeply in denial, and have no clue that people are tired of them.
Is this Anita “I have an enemy’s list” Dunn?
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.”
Ayup!
"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."
LOL.... Go Fox News! ...
This is not the change I was talking about!
Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark!
Said Mister Pheiffer, as he hits at a hornet's nest with a stick.
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