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The collected Washington bureau chiefs of the major broadcast networks rejected a White House attempt to keep Fox News from participating in pool reports. Rather than cut Fox out of the pool, the broadcast bureau chiefs unanimously told the Obama administration that none of them would accept any interviews from administration officials. That forced the White House into retreat:
I don’t know whether to be surprised or not. But I do suspect that one of the sub rosa reasons driving this decision was an acute perception of what sort of precedent it would set - coupled with a worrisome feeling that three years down the road, it might be somebody like Sarah Palin deciding who the “approved” networks would be.
Still, charitably, I’m going to assume that this was the minor part of the reasoning, that the major reason the other nets backed Fox was that it was the right thing to do, and that they thought Obama was wrong. So, kudos.
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It never happened. Fox was never excluded and they’re just making it all up.
Networks which claim otherwise are just marching in lockstep with Fox.
That first article also suggests a financial motive: the cost of the pool camera would be split fewer ways without Fox. I don’t buy it. Each remaining network’s share of the costs would be higher, but so would their share of the profits.
http://www.lastingliberty.com has a good article about this today: “Fox News Obama’s Only Friend”. The author makes a great point.
Good piece, kelluy. Thanks.