Said it in the vid and the print edition: Obama is baiting Fox, and Fox News will rise to the bait.
Take a look at Fox’s own Web story on the episode. …
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Five people are quoted in this article. Two of them work for Fox. All of them assert that administration officials are either wrong in substance or politically foolish to criticize the network. No one is cited supporting Dunn’s criticisms or saying that it could make sense, morally or politically, for Obama to challenge the network’s power. It’s a textbook example of a biased news story.
Emphasis added.
Look, this is all Fox is capable of doing. It is not a legitimate news channel; as Weisberg subsequently notes:
Any news organization that took its responsibilities seriously would take pains to cover presidential criticism fairly. It would regard doing so as itself a test of integrity and take pains not to load the dice in its own favor. At any other network, accusation of bias might even lead to some soul-searching and behavioral adjustment. At Fox, by contrast, complaints of unfairness prompt only hoots of derision and demands for “evidence” and “proof,” which when presented is brushed off and ignored.
This battle is for middle America, which - as of now - has no real opinion one way or another. Fox is stumbling right into the trap; Fox is reinforcing the narrative. Middle America will have an opinion on this, in a few years. And it ain’t gonna be a favorable one of Fox.
This is how the conservative movement destroys itself.
