BREAKING: "Truce" Between White House and Fox News?

[wndycty]

If FOX NEWS news VP had to go to the White House then I would say we know who has the upper hand.

Fox News and White House: "Truce"
By Matt Dornic on Oct 28, 2009 03:17 PM

A very reliable source tells FishbowlDC that Fox News VP Michael Clemente met with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and reached what some are calling a "truce."

Clemente then met with the FNC Washington bureau and encouraged staff to remain "fair and balanced."
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http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/west_wing_reportage/fox_news_and_white_house_truce_141563.asp

Here is more:

Obama Advisers Have No Regrets About Fox Feud
White House strategists say they are pleased with how things stand
By Kenneth T. Walsh
Posted October 28, 2009

White House strategists say they have no second thoughts about taking on Fox News in the biggest media feud of President Obama's administration. A senior Obama adviser says that, even though the West Wing has been roundly criticized by both adversaries and some allies for blasting Fox as an arm of the Republican Party and not a real news organization, administration insiders are pleased with how things stand.


The fuss has energized core Democrats who have wanted Obama and his advisers to get tough with Fox and other critics of the administration, the adviser says. And it has made the point that Fox is an outlier in the journalistic community, a notion that many liberals embrace.

The dynamic is similar to what used to happen when George W. Bush and his advisers took on what they disdainfully called the "mainstream media," especially liberal commentators on MSNBC. In those cases, attacking the media energized Bush's conservative base. Now Obama is doing the same, only with his liberal base, Democratic insiders say.

One drawback, which even Obama aides concede, is that Fox is using the quarrel with the White House as a public-relations tool to stir up its own support among conservatives and to boost ratings. "They're still at it," says a senior Obama aide, who adds that White House officials don't expect to fire another shot in the battle unless Fox strikes first.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/obama/2009/10/28/obama-advisers-have-no-regrets-about-fox-feud.html

[onehandle]

1. LOL! I Love The Onion!

Or this reasonable facsimile.

[wndycty]

2. Are you saying the meeting didn't happen?

:kick:

[onehandle]

4. I'm saying the 'encouraged' part never happened.

The FNC VP went back to the office and had a big laugh with his staff.

[BklnDem75]

15. The meeting didn't happen

My source just told me so. Are you saying my source didn't just tell me so?

[David Zephyr]

3. I don't believe this.

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[Cha]

16. Wise.

[Kahuna]

5. Sure. That'll happen...

NOT!!!

[movonne]

6. that mediabistro is a right wing rag...

[wndycty]

7. Did the meeting happen or not, what is faulty with their reporting?

:shrug:

[movonne]

14. Well I get their newsletter over the internet everyday and just reading

their stuff and the people who reply seems to be very right wing..

[depakid]

8. Any "truce" with Fox "news" is simply unilateral surrender

[Cha]

9. Shep Smith's mea culpa on faux..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x394935

[Clio the Leo]

13. Rise up in revolt Shep!!! Go on strike or something!!!! NT

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Comedy gold!

[C_U_L8R]

11. In topsy-turvey Faux world, truce has special meaning

they are bringing out their biggest stinkiest slime buckets

[budkin]

12. "Some are calling..."