Obama's Grudge Factor --WaPo

[Demeter]

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/01/obama.html


These are chilly days on Capitol Hill ... and on the campaign trail for Fox News journalists -- at least when they're anywhere near Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).


Will Fox have to watch Obama on C-Span like the rest of us? (Reuters photo)Sources tell The Sleuth that the Obama camp has "frozen out" Fox News reporters and producers in the wake of the network's major screw-up in running with the erroneous Obama-the-jihadist story reported by Insight magazine.

"I'm still in the freezer," one Fox journalist said, noting that the people at Fox "suffering the most did nothing wrong." (It was "Fox and Friends" host Steve Doocy who aired the Insight magazine piece, which reported that operatives connected to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) found out that Obama, as a child, was educated at a Muslim madrassah in Indonesia.)...Another Fox journalist called the network's airing of the story "unfortunate" for the network's journalists who have to cover Obama and who are being adversely affected despite not being involved in the incident.

Since the madrassah incident, Obama has given interviews to ABC, CNN, CBS and NBC -- pretty much every other network except Fox. Sources close to Obama acknowledged that they're not thrilled to play ball with Fox journalists, but they stopped short of saying they are freezing the network out.

One source familiar with the dynamic between Fox and Obama, who asked not to be named, said Obama and his staff are in for a rude awakening if they think they can write off Fox News. If a candidate is serious about running for president, he or she is going to need a network like Fox to reach out to all those voters in the red and purple states, the source said.

So maybe there was no written apology, but at least John Moody, vice president for news at Fox, issued this missive to staff in his daily editorial note on Jan. 23: "For the record: seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC. The urgent queue is our way of communicating information that is air-worthy. Please adhere to this."

YEAH, WE NEED FOX NEWS LIKE WE NEED ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD!

[kestrel91316]

1. Attention WaPo: The problem lies, not with any "grudge" by

Obama, but with Fox's VENDETTA against all things and persons non-christofascist.

[ikojo]

2. I'm glad Barack Obama has put Fox on ice

They called him a terrorist, which is akin to being called a communist in the 1980s, and they don't expect him to shun them? PLEASE. They are not used to Democrats with SPINE.

I hope Barack Obama does not cave into them.

Keep on marginalizing Fox Noise Network, Mr Obama!

[Tempest]

4. Since when does the media determine who a candidate talks to?

I applaud Obama and wish more Democrats would have the balls to stand up to the Faux propaganda machine.

I've been calling on Democrats for years to boycott Faux.

[Faygo Kid]

3. Fox is definitely too dirty for a clean guy like Barack

Sorry, couldn't resist. Fox has no legitimacy. Barack is right not to play along with them. Faux News: The Jeff Gannon of TV news.

[flying_wahini]

5. hooray for Obama, now if we could get all others to follow suit.....

FAUX should be investigated and fined by the FCC for their consistent "errors"

[gratuitous]

6. Grudge?

They called him a terrorist and a terrorist sympathizer! I realize that in the clubby atmosphere of Washington DC, such name-calling of Democratic candidates is pro forma and the only people who are supposed to get all excited about it are the electorate, who are expected not to return the outcast to office (but God forbid that any similar tactic be used against a Republican incumbent, and woe to the media outlet that transgresses!).

Democrats have taken shit from Fox for far too long, and if Fox loses some of its precious, precious access because of their yellow journalism, well too bad. In the meantime, they should either suck it up and apologize to Mr. Obama, or just quit being such whiny ass titty babies.