Posted on 10/19/2009 7:53:59 AM PDT by markomalley
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."
"Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way," Axelrod counseled ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "We're not going to treat them that way."
By urging other news outlets to side with the administration, Obama aides officials dramatically upped the ante in the war of words that began earlier this month, when White House communications director Anita Dunn branded Fox "opinion journalism masquerading as news."
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Media columnist David Carr of the New York Times warned that the White House war on Fox "may present a genuine problem for Mr. Obama, who took great pains during the campaign to depict himself as being above the fray of over-heated partisan squabbling."
"While there is undoubtedly a visceral thrill in finally setting out after your antagonists, the history of administrations that have successfully taken on the media and won is shorter than this sentence," Carr wrote over the weekend. "So far, the only winner in this latest dispute seems to be Fox News. Ratings are up 20 percent this year."
He added: "The administration, by deploying official resources against a troublesome media organization, seems to have brought a knife to a gunfight."
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I hadn't seen that term before either. I think it means something like "part and parcel," or "the items go hand in hand."
Now to look it up ...
Pari passu is a Latin phrase that literally means "with equal step."^[1] It is sometimes translated as "part and parcel," "hand-in-hand," "with equal force," or "moving together,"^[citation needed] and by extension, "fairly," "without partiality."
Lucky guess on my part.
Remarkable.
>> White House Escalates War on Fox News
Indirect instructions to the other networks to obey the word of the administration.
I mean FOX News picture and sound is being interrupted very often in the last 2 weeks
Or is my cable box going on the fritz?
No, I haven’t personally experienced that, but now that you’ve mentioned it, I’ll keep an eye out for that sort of thing.
Thanks.
CA....
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