Obama Team Continues Effort to Isolate Fox News

Senior Obama administration officials took to the airwaves Sunday to accuse Fox News of pushing a particular point of view, one week after the administration fired its initial salvo to try to isolate the news network by accusing it of being a GOP mouthpiece.

"A lot of their news programming, it's really not news. It's pushing a point of view," senior adviser David Axelrod said on ABC's "This Week." Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Oct 18, 2009 - 2:22 PM PDT
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Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 19, 2009

Bad journalism from Fox News about allegations by the Obama Administration that its cable channel "isn't really news." Instead of reaching out to independent sources to provide unbiased perspectives and facts about these allegations, this article mostly cites its own staff and commentators like Karl Rove to reject the White House's claims. There is no attempt to provide factual evidence about the content mix of Fox News programming, or to cite third party research about this issue.

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by Timothy Chambers - Oct. 19, 2009

It not good journalism as it does not fairly represent an objective view of this story or of the criticisms being offered. Having Karl Rove, a Fox Employee, and the Senior VP of Fox News, as the only sources to evaluate and respond to the White House criticism of the network makes this a very shallow and unfair news story.

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