Posted on 10/20/2009 4:04:00 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
This seems so obviously correct that I feel embarrassed for not having figured it out sooner.
The rationale of the White House offensive against Fox News has been a topic of much puzzlement lately. Is this just the White House lashing out? Are they trying to rally the base?
But I think Mike Allen and Josh Gerstein nail the real explanation in their story today: The White House is working to prevent stories born on Fox from crossing over into more widely-viewed media. Most Americans still haven’t heard of Van Jones, for instance; and the strategy is now all about containment…
Allen and Gerstein:
“We’re doing what we think is important to make sure news is covered as fairly as possible,” a White House official told POLITICO, noting how the recent ACORN scandal story started because Fox covered it “breathlessly for weeks on end.”
“And then you had a couple days of breast-beating from The Washington Post and The New York Times about whether or not they were fast enough on the ACORN story,” the official said. “And it’s like: Wait a second, guys. Let’s make sure that we keep perspective on what are the most important stories, and what’s being driven by a network that has a perspective. Being able to make that point has been important.”…
“They’re not really a news station,” Axelrod told ABC’s “This Week.” “It’s not just their commentators, but a lot of their news programming if you watch, it’s really not news….The bigger thing is that other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way, and we’re not going to treat them that way. We’re going to appear on their shows. We’re going to participate, but understanding that they represent a point of view.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Time someone popped Obama’s Balloon of an Ego.
CONTAINMENT...
I called this TWO WEEKS AGO.
I hate ALWAYS being right about these people.
It’s not Rahm’s Chicago Style, it’s Barry Hussein’s muslim style. Can anyone say “Fatwa on Fox”?
The media is all about ratings. They were getting great ratings when Obama was “it”. Now his star power seems to be peetering out. Sooner or later, one of the MSM will cave. Mark my words. The entire house of cards will fall.
Allowed.
In fact, some of the MSM ONLY covered those stores on their “blogs”.
Won’t work. Internet, word-of-mouth, radio, email, and all sorts of twitter and IM make any attempt to contain news hopeless.
If ABCCNNNBCMSNBCCBS are buying into the threatbullies at the WH demanding that they boycott FOX, well then, it just creates the well justified impression that they are neither independent nor anything other than State Run Media.
Fox will continuet to gain viewers.
Heh. Even as a containment strategy, "calling out" an operation just draws attention to it.
At any rate, the vast bulk of the public is completely malleable by media propaganda. The WH could just stonewall whatever issues FoxNews airs, and most of the media would follow the WH, because they (the media) are just as elitist and manipulative at bottom, as are the politicians (of both parties) who rise to the federal level.
Let’s just hope they achieve their goals before all of the other “news sources’ go out of business. Or not!
Why havent more News “people” come out against what the WH is doing? Its scary.
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A good containment strategy at the end of his third year could be a disaster for us.
A good containment strategy at the end of his first year is an indication of impending collapse.
“more widely viewed media?” Like MSNBC? Fox beats most of the other cable networks put together, and may not quite be up there with the “big three,” but when you combine Fox and Rush, it’s pretty close.
While the WH may be fooling itself into thinking it can isolate Fox, all it’s accomplishing is to emphasize the deep biases of the rest.
The media has the same political bent that the WH has. Plus, knocking off a competitor drives more business their way.
Fox should place this final Jefferson statement on its screen prior to each program as a means of educating the electorate on the appropriate role of the press in a free society--under a Constitution which limits the role of government in order to protect the rights and liberties of citizens.
The alphabet networks have dominated interpretation of news for so long that many citizens never have stopped to think that their opinions may have been manipulated in a manner which may not have included a search for truth.
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