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The war is over: Obama to appear on Fox News

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.

Halloween at the White House

The Obamas greeted about 2600 trick-or-treaters at the door of the White House on Halloween, doling out some highly prized White House M&Ms and… dried fruit?! Oh no, the White House is That House!

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.

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!

Democratic donors recieving White House perks

The Washington Times has scored internal documents it claims show Barack Obama has been rewarding major donors to the Democratic Party with exclusive access to the White House, administration advisers and important meetings.

The White House boosts Fox News’ ratings

All the attention the White House is giving to Fox News on other news channels seems to be backfiring: the network’s ratings have been soaring even higher since Obama officials started slagging it off in the media.

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.

Fox News vs. The White House: it’s on

A bloody fight is brewing in the US media. In the blue corner, the White House. In the red corner, Fox News. Will Obama’s message of hope beat the the right wing shock jocks in submission? asks Aaron Flanagan.

In defense of Fox News

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.”

White House vs. Fox News: why Obama can’t win

Fox News may have baited them, but Barack Obama — who has always tried to depict himself as above petty partisan squabbling — should never have allowed the White House to bite, writes David Carr.

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 vs. Fox News: round two

The White House’s attacks on Fox News continue, with a spokesperson accusing the network of being an “arm of the Republican Party” and waging a “war” on Obama.

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?

Video of the Day: A tasty tour through the White House veggie garden

First lady Michelle Obama takes you on a tour through the First Garden and its newly planted organic veggie patches, which yield fresh food for the Obama clan.

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.

Helen Thomas: Obama is a media control freak

Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas is becoming increasingly worried about the Obama administration’s attempts to control the press, stating that even Nixon didn’t try to exert the same level of control.

Obama harnesses Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter power

The White House has enlisted actor Ashton Kutcher to help promote National HIV Testing Day by tweeting about it to his 2.5 million followers. Shame they didn’t suggest he run a spell-check first, but that’s just how they roll in the fast-paced world of new media, we guess.

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.

White House still woos the NYT

The media landscape may be evolving beyond mainstream dailies, but Obama and his team still crave the validation that comes from being written about by the New York Times.