The White House appears to have called a cease-fire in its war with Fox News, with news President Obama is scheduled to give an interview to the network next week.
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Why is the media siding with Fox against Obama?
Fox News isn’t generally on great terms with the rest of the mainstream media, but since coming under attack from the White House, journalists are suddenly siding with their own — even if that means sticking up for the very people who routinely attack them.
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White House and Fox News call a truce
According to a “very reliable source”, Fox News SVP Michael Clemente and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs have met to bury the hatchet over on their recent spat. Aww, just when it was getting good!
Why is the White House throwing red meat to Fox’s angry white men?
The public don’t expect cable news networks to be unbiased or accurate, so the White House’s war on Fox News is futile, and just makes the station even more popular with its core conservative constituency, says Louis Menand.
White House vs. Fox News: Fox is “not really news”, says Axelrod and Emanuel
The 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.”
White House doesn’t wear the Fox hat
Travelling through the US, Simon Burrow reports on the battle of Fox News vs. the White House. Has open war broken out between old and new media?
Yes, he went there: Glenn Beck compares White House attacks on Fox with the Holocaust
Proving that any stupid argument will inevitably descend into Hitler comparisons, Fox News’ Glenn Beck has likened the Obama White House’s treatment of Fox News to the Nazi persecution of Jews.
White House slams Glenn Beck and Fox News
The official White House blog is getting pretty lippy for such an official government channel, attacking Fox News host Glenn Beck for his “attempt to smear” the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid and providing rebuttals to Fox’s “lies”. Meow.
The White House springs a leak
The Washington Post recently got its hands on a leaked report from the US commander in Afghanistan to President Obama. So who let it slip? And why?
To market we go, with Michelle Obama
First lady Michelle Obama was first in line to get some fashionably fresh fare at the much-hyped new White House Farmer’s Market. The big question: what did she buy?
A sneak-peek inside the Bush White House
A former Bush speech writer has released some tasty tidbits from his forthcoming insider’s account of working in the Dubbya White House, revealing the former President’s trash talk about Obama, Palin, Biden and others.
Oops
File-sharing leaks classified White House docs online
Some very sensitive US government data is now online due to inadvertent peer-to-peer file-sharing: the location of America’s weapons grade nuclear fuel, the First Lady’s safe house, the government’s witness list and more.
New media enters the White House
A choreographed question between the Huffington Post and Barack Obama at a recent press conference raises questions about bloggers’ roles as journalists and the place of new media in the White House.
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.











The Atlantic / Thursday, 22 October 2009
So what if Fox News is conservative? asks Matthew Cooper. That’s no excuse for the White House to completely shun it: “If the White House can reach out to the Iranians and North Koreans, for gosh sakes, they can talk to Shepard Smith.”