White House Feud With Fox Has Nothing To Do With "News"

When people say that the White House has "declared war" on Fox News, what do they really mean? Is the White House objecting to the criticisms put forth by Fox's opinion-mongers, like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity? Or are they locked in battle with the actual reporting arm of the media organization. It's not a distinction that the White House has been especially good at making. When ABC News' Jake Tapper pressed Robert Gibbs on this, Gibbs suggested, "You and I should watch sometime around 9 o'clock tonight. Or 5 o'clock this afternoon" -- citing the two aforementioned loose cannons of canonical Foxist opinion.

But look, it doesn't really matter, because there's very little daylight between the promulgators of opinion and the relaters of fact at Fox.

Earlier today, Rachel Weiner documented ten particularly egregious instances of Fox making actual news distortions. Following on that, we have a mash-up video from Media Matters, that further closes the gap between these two sides of the network. LinkHere

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