The Foxified debate over whether the White House is being mean to a certain network is morphing into a broader argument about the politics of negativity.
The question, which is being pushed on the right, is whether the Obama team is using its muscle to demonize its opponents.
The president bears a special burden in this regard. He ran as a post-partisan guy who would reach out to the other side. (Of course, Bush also ran as a ...
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Based on my readings, Kurtz seems to have overlooked other news outlets' defense for Fox News in this fight. Most obviously, at least two of Kurtz's colleagues have criticized the administration's "dumb war" with Fox (links). Kurtz's counterpart at the New York Times, David Carr, has called attention to it also. Guests and anchors on MSNBC and CNN and other media observers have made the tired comparison to the Nixon White House. So I think it's myopic to say "Other news organizations don't seem terribly concerned about the frontal assault against the channel." Thus, I mark it down for context, depth and sourcing.
