White House vs. Fox News: Fox is “not really news”, says Axelrod and EmanuelThe White House war (or retaliation, depending on how you see it) on Fox News continues, with both White House senior adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel declaring on Sunday talkshows that the network is “not really a news station” and its content is “not really news.”
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Obama vs the lobbyists: who’s winning?
On his first day in office, Barack Obama issued an executive order targeting lobbyists’ power. But with 3,300 lobbyists working on health care alone, he underestimated the task ahead. Andy Kroll checks out the scorecard.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Who ate all the yellowcake?
If you think it’s tough to get an incinerator built these days, trying putting a nuclear waste dump anywhere. Voters wouldn’t allow it, not in their backyards. Nuclear power is the defining struggle, around which a new politics is organised.
How Rahm Emanuel mastered the media
Howard Kurtz explains how White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel plays the nation’s press like a cheap fiddle.
