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New W.H. Comm Director Has a Dim View of Fox News
Accuracy in Media ^ | January 20, 2010 | Don Irvine

Posted on 01/20/2010 6:56:06 AM PST by AIM Freeper

Anita Dunn may be gone from the White House but her successor feels the same way she did about Fox News.

From TVNewser

The White House has a new communications director -- Dan Pfeiffer -- but the message is the same when it comes to Fox News Channel.

During a video interview today with The New York Times' The Caucus blog, Pfeiffer was clear about the White House position on Fox News:

"I have the same view of Fox that Anita [Dunn] had, which is that Fox is not a traditional news organization. They have a point of view. That point of view pervades the entire network both the opinion shows, like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly, but also through the newscasts during the day," Pfeiffer said.

"We don't feel an obligation to treat them like we would treat a CNN or an ABC or an NBC or a traditional news organization. But there are times when it would make sense to communicate with them and appear on the network."

Fox News responded tonight: "Obviously new to his position, Dan seems to be intent upon repeating the mistakes of his predecessor... and we all remember how well that turned out."

After last night's stunning victory by Scott Brown in Massachusetts which will likely result in the scrapping of the president's health care bill the strategy to ignore Fox or relegate them to a lesser role will only continue to backfire on them as they shield themselves from a large and influential audience.

(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...


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1 posted on 01/20/2010 6:56:09 AM PST by AIM Freeper
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To: AIM Freeper

...but of course, MSNBC and CNN do not have a particular point of view.....


2 posted on 01/20/2010 6:58:18 AM PST by Pecos
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To: AIM Freeper

They just don’t get it. Do they? Simply amazing.


3 posted on 01/20/2010 6:58:52 AM PST by yooling ( FUBO)
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To: AIM Freeper

That’s OK, I have a dim view of this WH.


4 posted on 01/20/2010 6:59:16 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
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To: AIM Freeper
The goons in the white house should be very afraid of the FOX viewers since we the people will get their filthy butt out of our house..Scott Brown is just the beginning you fools..

I want to tank ever person in Mass that voted for Scott Brown they made history last night and took their state back from the criminal fools that ran it.

5 posted on 01/20/2010 7:02:18 AM PST by PLD
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To: AIM Freeper
It's a good thing we got some objective news to turn to on MSNBC Olberman is very good at not being seen as partisan...
/s
6 posted on 01/20/2010 7:05:47 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: AIM Freeper

Isn’t Pfeiffer the husband of Anita Dunn?

Demon-cRATs are nothing if they are not inbred.

It probably explains a lot of their loose grasp on cognitive reality.


7 posted on 01/20/2010 7:06:30 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: AIM Freeper

The WH? Isn’t that where we’re sending our elementary school dropouts?


8 posted on 01/20/2010 7:07:47 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: AIM Freeper

I could care less if a news organization has a point of view. It is inevitable. There is no such thing as ‘objective’ reporting. Reporters are human beings and human beings have points of view that inform, even if subconsciously, their perspective. So what.

Fox comes closest by at least being willing to provide a forum for opposing views, even on the opinion shows. But the idea that the rest of the networks are unbiased is simply a lie. The myth of objective journalism died with William Randolph Hearst. And good riddance.

If journalists would simply show some courage (as if) and make their political affinities public then viewers can take that into account when listening to them. I don’t care. I am an adult and it is my responsibility to try and sort out the information that comes to me.

It is time for journalism to drop the pretense. And that includes Fox.


9 posted on 01/20/2010 7:09:02 AM PST by newheart (A RINO is anyone who claims to be Republican but doesn't agree with ME on everything. </sarc>)
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To: Westbrook

No, but he replaced her when her husband got his WH job.


10 posted on 01/20/2010 7:10:31 AM PST by GnuHere
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To: AIM Freeper

Oh? That verbal run from Olbermann was not a point of view?


11 posted on 01/20/2010 7:10:57 AM PST by Exit148 (Loose Change Founder. A little goes a long way!)
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To: AIM Freeper

Yet Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Rachel Maddow don’t have a point of view? Oh, that’s right, they don’t have a point of view because it’s the same point of view the White house has. I get it now.


12 posted on 01/20/2010 7:12:36 AM PST by Wee-Weed Up
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To: AIM Freeper
I see this as excellent news.

The Democrats are severely out of touch, deeply in denial, and have no clue that people are tired of them.

13 posted on 01/20/2010 7:17:34 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (We have the 1st so that we can call on people to rebel. We have 2nd so that they can.)
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To: AIM Freeper

Is this Anita “I have an enemy’s list” Dunn?


14 posted on 01/20/2010 7:22:04 AM PST by rod1
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To: AIM Freeper
I see that the White House guys have put on their TRANSPARENCY glasses.


15 posted on 01/20/2010 7:27:05 AM PST by Young Werther ( ("Quae Cum Ita Sunt - Julius Caesar "Since these things are so!"))
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Fox News responded tonight: “Obviously new to his position, Dan seems to be intent upon repeating the mistakes of his predecessor... and we all remember how well that turned out.”

Ayup!


16 posted on 01/20/2010 7:43:30 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
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To: AIM Freeper
"We don't feel an obligation to treat them like we would treat a CNN or an ABC or an NBC or a traditional news organization. But there are times when it would make sense to communicate with them and appear on the network."

Fox News responded tonight: "Obviously new to his position, Dan seems to be intent upon repeating the mistakes of his predecessor... and we all remember how well that turned out."

LOL.... Go Fox News! ...


17 posted on 01/20/2010 7:51:08 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland


This is not the change I was talking about!


18 posted on 01/20/2010 7:52:01 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: AIM Freeper
Fox News responded tonight: "Obviously new to his position, Dan seems to be intent upon repeating the mistakes of his predecessor... and we all remember how well that turned out."

Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark!

19 posted on 01/20/2010 7:53:20 AM PST by FatherFig1o155 (It's time to call politicians out. My soapbox is here: njconservative.wordpress.com/)
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To: AIM Freeper
"We don't feel an obligation to treat them like we would treat a CNN or an ABC or an NBC or a traditional news organization.

Said Mister Pheiffer, as he hits at a hornet's nest with a stick.

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20 posted on 01/20/2010 8:17:09 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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