A Volley Between Fox News and Obama Administration

New York Times by Brian Stelter | Oct. 12, 2009 (News Analysis)

A presidential spokeswoman said, “We don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.” Full Story »

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by Christoph Wienands - Oct. 12, 2009

The author examines an escalating verbal battle between the White House and Fox. Not only do both sides bring their arguments, the author also looks at potential reasons why both sides might be interested in such an escalation.

While principally I think that politicians need to be able to take some criticism, it was especially enlightening to hear the arguments why both sides would want and would benefit from this escalation.

“We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent”. Anita Dunn, White House. Chris Wallace [calls] the administration “the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington.”