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Anonymous
OK, people were trying to be helpful but the only one throwing a tantrum here is you. It's not a conversation if one person refuses to listen to anything but the voices in their head. |
Anonymous
The tone of the interviewer is not at issue. The history of Fox's attacks on the President, their biased coverage (please, don't pretend otherwise), and their refusal to carry the President's speech to Congress on the Fox network channel is. What is this, News Socialism? Is every news outlet entitled to a free interview regardless of how they perform? Handouts for Hannity? |
Anonymous
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Fox has not broadcast the last three prime time addresses by the President. They are the only ones to do that. It's political. And no, Fox news is not good enough. NBC carries them even though they also show on MSNBC.
If you fox fans are so eager to hear from the President, go tell Rupert Murdoch to stop playing politics and put presidential addresses on the Fox channel. And as for Major Garrett, if you like him then maybe you'll trust his opinion of the "tension" between Obama and Fox News. He doesn't think it's a big deal and he's right there in the White House: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908240134 |
Anonymous
| You are probably right that Fox is not as President Obama friendly a place as other networks, in terms of covering his every word, journalistic bias etc. However, many pp's have made the point that the news reporting--as opposed to the personality driven shows--is incisive, interesting and respectful. They also have a different viewership from say, MSNBC, that a President committed to outreach and not afraid of a meeting of opposing views may wish to engage. But basically, you are in fact confirming that the President should/would only speak in fan club forums and soft landings? |
Anonymous
| No. But neither should he have to talk to any news group, regardless of its behavior. Maybe you'd like him to do Al Jazeera interviews when we get to foreign policy? |
Anonymous
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I should add that if some station joked on air about my assassination, tried to make me a Muslim, called me a racist, and insulted my wife, I'd probably not give them a second thought.
What counts is reaching Americans, and any American can see those other five interviews. It's more than enough outreach, except for those who are so biased that they can only accept one news source for all their information. |
Anonymous
NP here. Actually I'd love to see him do Al Jazeera interviews. For those who are interested, with the move to digital broadcasting, you can now see Al-Jazeera English on broadcast tv at 30-5. People may not like the slant of Al-Jazeera (just as some don't like Fox or MSNBC) but it's a legitimate news station. What, do you think all the newscasters are out setting off Katusha rockets? |
Anonymous
| The journalists on Fox News are pretty impartial, not like Hannity or O'Reily who are paid to give their opinions. |
Anonymous
Let's test this one out. I will post below the questions asked by the reporters at Obama's first official press conference. Tell me which one you think is from Fox's Major Garrett, and why? And for bonus points, which one was asked by ultra-liberal Huffington Post and why? Q1 Thank you, Mr. President. Earlier today in Indiana, you said something striking. You said that this nation could end up in a crisis without action that we would be unable to reverse. Can you talk about what you know or what you're hearing that would lead you to say that our recession might be permanent, when others in our history have not? And do you think that you risk losing some credibility or even talking down the economy by using dire language like that? Q2 Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to shift gears to foreign policy. What is your strategy for engaging Iran, and when will you start to implement it? Will your timetable be affected at all by the Iranian elections? And are you getting any indications that Iran is interested in a dialogue with the United States? Q3 Thank you, Mr. President. You have often said that bipartisanship is extraordinarily important overall, and in the stimulus package. But now when we ask your advisors about the lack of bipartisanship so far -- zero votes in the House, three in the Senate -- they say, well, it's not the number of votes that matters, it's the number of jobs that will be created. Is that a sign that you are moving away, your White House is moving away from this emphasis on bipartisanship? And what went wrong? Did you underestimate how hard it would be to change the way Washington works? Q4 Thank you, Mr. President. In your opening remarks, you talked about that if your plan works the way you want it to work, it's going to increase consumer spending. But isn't consumer spending or overspending how we got into this mess? And if people get money back into their pockets, do you not want them saving it or paying down debt first before they start spending money into the economy? Q5 Thank you, Mr. President. Many experts, from Nouriel Roubini to Senator Schumer, have said that it will cost the government more than a trillion dollars to really fix the financial system. During the campaign you promised the American people that you won't just tell them what they want to hear, but what they need to hear. Won't the government need far more than the $350 billion that's remaining in the financial rescue funds to really solve the credit crisis? Q6 Thank you, Mr. President. My question follows [ ]'s in content. The American people have seen hundreds of billions of dollars spent already, and still the economy continues to free fall. Beyond avoiding the national catastrophe that you've warned about, once all the legs of your stool are in place, how can the American people gauge whether or not your programs are working? Can they -- should they be looking at the metric of the stock market, home foreclosures, unemployment? What metric should they use? When? And how will they know if it's working, or whether or not we need to go to a plan B? Q7 Thank you, Mr. President. You promised to send more troops to Afghanistan. And since you've been very clear about a timetable to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq within 16 months, I wonder what's your timetable to withdraw troops eventually from Afghanistan? Q8 Thank you, sir. I wanted to ask you on the next bank bailout. Are you going to impose a requirement that the financial institutions use this money to loosen up credit and make new lending? And if not, how do you make the case to the American people that this bailout will work, when the last one didn't? Q9 Mr. President, at a speech Friday that many of us covered, Vice President Biden said the following thing about a conversation the two of you had in the Oval Office, about a subject he didn't disclose: "If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, if we stand up there and we really make the tough decisions, there's still a 30 percent chance we're going to get it wrong." Since the Vice President brought it up, can you tell the American people, sir, what you were talking about? And if not, can you at least reassure them it wasn't the stimulus bill or the bank rescue plan -- (laughter) -- and if in general, you agree with that ratio of success, 30 percent failure, 70 percent success? Q10 Yes, thank you, sir. What is your reaction to Alex Rodriguez's admission that he used steroids as a member of the Texas Rangers? Q11 Mr. President, do you think that Pakistan are maintaining the safe havens in Afghanistan for these so-called terrorists? And also, do you know of any country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons? {inaudible questions deleted here} Q12 Thank you, Mr. President. Today Senator Patrick Leahy announced that he wants to set up a truth and reconciliation committee to investigate the misdeeds of the Bush administration. He said that before you turn the page, you have to read the page first. Do you agree with such a proposal, and are you willing to rule out right here and now any prosecution of Bush administration officials? Q13 Thank you, Mr. President. If it's this hard to get more than a handful of Republican votes on what is relatively easy -- spending tons of money and cutting people's taxes -- when you look down the road at health care and entitlement reform and energy reform, those are really tough choices. You're going to be asking some people to get less and some people to pay more.??What do you think you're going to have to do to get more bipartisanship? Are you going to need a new legislative model, bringing in Republicans from the very beginning, getting more involved in the details yourself from the beginning, or using bipartisan commissions? What has this experience with the stimulus led you to think about when you think about these future challenges?? |
Anonymous
| Actually the president had gone on al jazeera I believe. Why shouldn't he? He should share his views in a variety of venues, including Fox. |
Anonymous
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Apologies, it was al-arabiya
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1874379,00.html |
Anonymous
| Glen Beck hosts his show on Fox News. I think that pretty much rules Fox out as a competent, responsible news source. End of Story. |
Anonymous
| Sorry, I misspoke. I meant to say that Glenn Beck hosts his show on the Fox Network. Which in my opinion, given his extremist views, impunes the journalistic integrity of that network. |
Anonymous
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Glen Beck hosts an opinion show. Bret Baird hosts a news show. Ditto Shepherd Smith.
Do you contend that Chris Matthews hosts News for MSNBC? |
Anonymous
| Obama is the most unqualified president in modern memory. Hopefully we get through 4 years without a major foreign policy test. this cat just doesnt get it. |