It hasn't hit the web yet but it will shortly. Pay Czar Ken Feinberg sent out a memo to the WH press corp advising of a round robin discussion on exec pay cuts. He specifically said Fox News was not invited to participate. Are you kidding me? Are we being governed by school children? To their credit, the other News organizations refused to participate unless Fox was included.
This is going to back fire on Obama like a chit storm. Reporters are loyal to each other regardless of their networks commentary based programming. 80% of the programming on all these networks is news. The White House needs to remember that while contemplating this idiotic policy. Has there ever been an administration in our history that has declared all out war on a major news network?
the only administration i could think of would be the Nixon administration. Justa guess though, i was too young to remember anything from that era.
I believe Nixon targeted a few newspapers he didnt like and tried to discredit them but it wasnt a national news network. I dont believe we ever had an administration try to muzzle a media outlet the size of Fox. This is uncharted territory. The White House will lose this battle and have to eat a big chit burger trying to spin their way out of it.
Nixon had an official White House enemies list that included journalists. Raul Emmanuel has the reputation of a control freak and he's testing the media. Clearly the administration doesn't have to be friendly to hostile commentators like Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, etc, any more than Bush was friendly to Michael Moore or Al Franken. But he can't keep their legitimate news reporters from reporting. It's up to the public to decide if they are biased and switch them off. I watch FOX to be amused by O'Reilly and the rest of the brown shirts, and I simply disregard their highly biased news segments. But I get to make that choice, not Raul Emmanuel.
exactly. I think it is quite telling that the rest of the media world is pushing back at the administration. This might prove to be a fight they will not win and should have never picked. If, and probably when, they lose this fight, it will do even more damage to the administration's downward trending public support.
I knew Nixon was a vindictive bastard and had it out for some of the media. He didnt take on an entire national news network though. This has an Emmanual stench all over it. Obama is going to have to step in and clean this mess up though. I agree that hostile commentators dont have to be dealt with but you cant shut out an entire network that devotes 80% of their programming to news because you dont like Beck and Hannity. Its funny that O'Reilly isnt even viewed as one of the problems. I believe Obama has been on his show but an administration can not decide what the public watches and who they pay attention to. Thats exactly what they are trying to do here and its unprecedented in our history. This is one ground breaking move that Obama will wish he didnt make. These reporters are all brothers in arms and even the most liberal will not sit idly by while some control freak commie like Emmanual presses the issue. They will lose, and lose big.
Nope. Chartis, Inc is totally autonomous. Chartis has it's own CEO and BoD and is in now way connected to AIG.
Semantics. No one is fooled. Chartis is a wholly owned subsidiary of AIG. They have made plans to sell perhaps 20% of it, but it hasn't happened yet. If I said that I work for LSU, which is totally autonomous and not connected in any way with the State of Louisiana . . . you would also call BS.
Fascinating how someone can act like he knows what he's talking about when, in fact he has no clue. I don't get my info off the internet, Clyde. I'm on the inside.
So you are saying both sources lie and that AIG does not own Chartis. It should be easy for you to prove. Perhaps something happened since July that isn't noted above?
