A Volley Between Fox News and Obama Administration

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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Steven K Samra
3.7
by Steven K Samra - Oct. 13, 2009

Stelter struggles to maintain an air of objectivity in the piece and in doing so, seems to lose sight of the larger issues being put forth about the network by the Obama administration. Simply because a television program has large numbers viewers does not make that program somehow more relevant, accurate or fair. Stelter would have increased his competency on the piece by presenting additional examples of why the Obama administration has reached the conclusions about Fox news that they have; Stelter's piece makes it look like the administration is sniveling about unfair attacks while ignoring the very issues that have prompted this response from Obama's administration. This, by the way, is a favorite tactic of Fox "News"....

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