Thursday, July 28, 2011

Video: White House accuses Fox News reporter Ed Henry of "creating a thing" by asking for Obama's debt proposal (that doesn't exist)

More Fox Derangement Syndrome:
Fox News White House correspondent Ed Henry asks White House Press secretary Jay Carney why not submit the Obama plan to CBO for scoring like Boehner and Reid. Carney doesn't answer the question, then accuses Henry of "creating a thing" for Fox News.
That follows this from the prior day: White House Accuses Fox News Reporter of Pushing Republican Talking Points
Ed Henry's first exchange as Fox News WH correspondent was certainly a memorable one, ending with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney derisively advising him "You should go on the air and tell your viewers there's nothing to worry about (the US defaulting), that's one approach."
Leonard Pitts Jr. of course had to feed his FDS as well: A futile search for news in Fox News reporting. His proof? This, after the Murdoch newspaper scandal in the UK:
The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism just surveyed reportage of the story in two time frames: July 6-8 and 11-15. In that period, according to Pew, CNN devoted almost 170 minutes to the story, MSNBC about 145. Fox? About 30. That bears repeating: One of the biggest stories of the summer gets, over the course of six days, a half-hour of attention from Fox "News."
So Fox has to report it as much as Democratic Party propaganda channels CNN and MSNBC? Or they're biased? And the newspaper scandal in the UK is "one of the biggest stories of the summer"? Is he joking? Most on this side of the pond could care less. Except of course for those suffering happily from FDS. No wonder this is the current state: The Hill Poll: Most voters see media as biased and unethical
A full 68 percent of voters consider the news media biased, the poll found. Most, 46 percent, believe the media generally favor Democrats, while 22 percent said they believe Republicans are favored, with 28 percent saying the media is reasonably balanced.


The share of voters who believe the media are too friendly with politicians is almost twice as large as those who find their coverage of politicians appropriate. Forty-four percent of voters assert the former; only 24 percent believe the latter.
So it's not Fox, it's everybody else. More from Big Journalism, Weasel ZippersDon Surber, Legal Insurrection, NewsBusters and JammieWearingFool. In particular, William Jacobson ends with this:
How about this.  Conservatives take control of  CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, NYT, AP, Reuters, and so on, and liberals get the Murdoch empire?  I’d take that trade in a heartbeat.