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Obama Still Shuns Fox News
President Obama took no questions from Fox News at his most recent press conference and Smart Politics finds this was the norm during his first term.
"ABC reporters have been called on the most frequently during Barack Obama's 36 solo news conferences (formal and otherwise) conducted during his first term, followed by CBS, the Associated Press, and NBC, with FOX News coming in at a distant ninth at less than half the rate of the top outlets and less than 40 percent of press conferences overall."
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/01/16/obama_still_shuns_fox_news.html
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)FUCK FOX "NEWS"
Run by two anti american foreigners! Murdoch and the Prince.
And check out Murdoch's other station "Randome" in the Middle East. Broadcasting straight out anti American hate.
I may have the name slightly wrong. It was posted here a day or two ago. Unbelievable.
sadbear
(4,340 posts)permission to enter the White House.
derby378
(30,252 posts)Or are they still there? Has there been another seating change?
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)That made me smile.
Come sit at the front of the class and serve as an example!
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)derby378
(30,252 posts)Honestly, however, I can think of a half-dozen media sources more deserving of that seat. Where's NPR situated?
best answer ever to this.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)....way more noble and satisfying than their lying and cheating history.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)That's where they used to put me. I had horrible eyesight, so the front row was my row because if I didn't sit there, I couldn't read the bulletin board.
Obama is trying to help Fox News so they can see and hear him better.
They are pretty stupid, so I'm glad he isn't letting them ask questions and dumb down the press conferences.
annatee33
(30 posts)Nice to see the uncomfortable shoes on the Fox foot! You oh so rock Helen Thomas!
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)sadbear
(4,340 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Still a douche but seemed to lack that condescending douchiness of Rupert Murdoch's trolls. Thanks for the info. Who picked him up?
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)BlueNoteSpecial
(141 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)Yep...
I have seen them more than once hanging out together at different televised events.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)He asked a question and after the President clearly answered it he wanted to get on the stage and debate it with him.
jillan
(39,451 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)They've attacked him with both, posted ridiculous things about him, and even announced his death before. The FNN Goebbels couldn't be any more obvious.
Separation
(1,975 posts)Wasn't there a ruling that Fox News wasn't a real news source? That it was more or less an opinion channel and couldn't be held accountable for the blatant lies that they spew? Or am I just imagining that?
caledesi
(11,903 posts)Go figure ....it's pure opinion, not fact!
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)the only people who don`t know that are the people who watch fox news.
if a fox news reporter was recognized and the president responded that response would be edited before it was aired on fox news. remember it`s legal for a news organization to lie
glowing
(12,233 posts)for false reporting, they argued that they were an entertainment cable channel, so they didn't have to stand up to "news standards". The Judge accepted their argument. Why any Dem goes on the lying channel or the White House entertains them with a Press pass or access to the White House is beyond me.
They should have been shut down as a "news organization" OR behave like real press and follow the "news rules". I suppose because they have affiliate local Fox News outlets, they can pretend to walk the fine line, but the parent cable channel should be shut out of the White House. Let the local DC fox channel affiliate cover the White House. They do have to be credible in their local news outlets. If the cable channel doesn't want to use the local affiliate coverage for their cable clips, that's on their head.
It would really be hard to claim fair and balanced when they couldn't get the "other side" to come on and counter their bs factory.
dem4ward
(323 posts)Hekate
(90,769 posts)Yay, POTUS!
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)And O knows it, he found out the hard way. He has given them chances
in the past but their deceitfulness always comes shining through.
ETA: Helen Thomas has a little payback coming her way anyhow.
JohnnyRingo
(18,638 posts)That is to say, none.
They're just one step above NewsMax and The Onion.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)They are free to put whatever they wish on the air, but a White House press pass is a privilege, not a right.
WestSeattle2
(1,730 posts)so obviously slanted. Real news organizations do not knowingly present exposed lies as news, and repeat them even after they're called out on them.
They're not even "entertainment"; all they are is the propaganda arm of the republican party. To believe otherwise is foolish.
It's way past time leaders ignore them.
appleannie1
(5,068 posts)The Wizard
(12,546 posts)is to broadcast Republican propaganda 24/7, there's no point in giving them any chance to use the president as a vehicle for his own detriment.