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More distortions by Fox
The Fox Newsification of the story: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/23/white-house-loses-bid-exclude-fox-news-pay-czar-interview/
"The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to exclude Fox News from participating in an interview of an administration official, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.
And here's another take on what happened: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/wh-were-happy-to-exclude-fox-but-didnt-yesterday-with-feinberg-interview.php?ref=fpb
"Feinberg did a pen and pad with reporters to brief them on cutting executive compensation. TV correspondents, as they do with everything, asked to get the comments on camera. Treasury officials agreed and made a list of the networks who asked (Fox was not among them).
But logistically, all of the cameras could not get set up in time or with ease for the Feinberg interview, so they opted for a round robin where the networks use one pool camera. Treasury called the White House pool crew and gave them the list of the networks who'd asked for the interview."
If you listen to Fox's Major Garrett, his account doesn't contradict the TPM version of what happened. He never mentions why Fox was not on the list of networks, only says that the assembled list did not included Fox. He also doesn't mention that all the networks but Fox asked to get on-camera comments.
Should they have been on the list in the first place? Probably.
What this an attempt to "backdoor" Fox? It seems unlikely.
But then again, the White House did say that if they had excluded Fox that would have been a case of: "Not that there's anything wrong with that!"
"The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to exclude Fox News from participating in an interview of an administration official, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.
And here's another take on what happened: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/wh-were-happy-to-exclude-fox-but-didnt-yesterday-with-feinberg-interview.php?ref=fpb
"Feinberg did a pen and pad with reporters to brief them on cutting executive compensation. TV correspondents, as they do with everything, asked to get the comments on camera. Treasury officials agreed and made a list of the networks who asked (Fox was not among them).
But logistically, all of the cameras could not get set up in time or with ease for the Feinberg interview, so they opted for a round robin where the networks use one pool camera. Treasury called the White House pool crew and gave them the list of the networks who'd asked for the interview."
If you listen to Fox's Major Garrett, his account doesn't contradict the TPM version of what happened. He never mentions why Fox was not on the list of networks, only says that the assembled list did not included Fox. He also doesn't mention that all the networks but Fox asked to get on-camera comments.
Should they have been on the list in the first place? Probably.
What this an attempt to "backdoor" Fox? It seems unlikely.
But then again, the White House did say that if they had excluded Fox that would have been a case of: "Not that there's anything wrong with that!"
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