We "control" news media

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » October 19th, 2009, 3:16 am

White House boasts: We 'control' news media
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113347

President Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.

"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn.

"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters," said Dunn, referring to Plouffe, who was Obama's chief campaign manager.

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Very interesting to listen to this video clip.
To me.. this smacks the real Reporters right up side the head especially the ones that got caught up in Obama worship.

They bought the "controlled media package" hook line and sinker.

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » October 19th, 2009, 4:29 am

So now we understand why they are attacking America's FOXNEWS?
Apparently they don't control this outlet... yet?

White House Escalates War on Fox News
Senior Obama administration officials took to the airwaves Sunday to accuse Fox News of pushing a particular point of view and not being a real news network.

The White House escalated its offensive against Fox News on Sunday by urging other news organizations to stop "following Fox" and instead join the administration's attempt to marginalize the channel.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN that President Obama does not want "the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox."

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is "not a news organization."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10 ... 925819282/

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » October 19th, 2009, 11:37 am

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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/10/ ... 8382890:z0

Why is the White House Still Attacking Fox News?
The White House escalated its offensive against Fox News on Sunday by urging other news organizations to stop "following Fox" and instead join the administration's attempt to marginalize the channel.

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Pretty soon it will not be any single group left to impugn and marginalize.
Change you can believe in?

Beam me up Scotty.

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » October 19th, 2009, 1:27 pm

Sotomayor Says White House Even Picked Out Her Clothes

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/poli ... 24512.html

Mike Vande · Postby **Mike Vande** » October 19th, 2009, 2:00 pm

MacUser wrote:Why is the White House Still Attacking Fox News?
The White House escalated its offensive against Fox News on Sunday by urging other news organizations to stop "following Fox" and instead join the administration's attempt to marginalize the channel.

They are still attacking Fox News because everyone who supports the adminsitration hates Fox News. They'd lost half their support if they didn't.

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » October 20th, 2009, 6:12 am

Mike Vande wrote:They are still attacking Fox News because everyone who supports the adminsitration hates Fox News. They'd lost half their support if they didn't.

Very good point Mike.

Mole_J · Postby **Mole_J** » October 20th, 2009, 7:03 am

Wonders if there will be a law proposed similar to the one passed in Argentina.

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » October 22nd, 2009, 6:38 am

Obama suggests Fox News is like 'talk radio'
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... talk-radio

Fox News is "operating basically as talk radio," President Obama suggested in an interview airing today.

After weeks of public feuding between the cable news channel and the president's top aides, Obama seemed to agree with statements by his advisers that Fox is not a real "news station."

"I think what our advisers have simply said is that we are going to take media as it comes," Obama told NBC's Savannah Guthrie. "And if media is operating basically as a talk radio format then that's one thing, and if it's operating as a news outlet that's another but it's not something I'm losing sleep over."

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod said this weekend that Fox is "not really a news station." That echoies similar comments made by White House Communications Director Anita Dunn and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

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Then that makes you operating like a... ? ( Fill in the blank )

dawgs10 · Postby **dawgs10** » October 23rd, 2009, 5:25 am

lets see, a left leaning white house vs. a radical right news network. umm who would have tunk it.

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » October 23rd, 2009, 6:15 am

dawgs10 wrote:lets see, a left leaning white house vs. a radical right news network. umm who would have tunk it.

Calling FoxNews Radical RIGHT (and WH just leaning ).. is like me calling you a massive Kool-Aid Kook.

It would be absolutely wrong, if so.. and I would never do such a crazy thing. :wink:

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