White House Communications Director Anita Dunn asserted on Sunday the administration views Fox News as an "arm" of the Republican Party.
"It’s fair to say about Fox, and certainly the way we view it, is that it is a wing of the Republican Party," Dunn said on CNN's "Reliable Sources."
"They are widely viewed as part of the Republican Party. Take their talking points, put them on the air. Take their research, put it on the air," Dunn said of the network. "Fox News often operates as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party."
Dunn scoffed at the network's defense that viewers can distinguish between Fox's news content and the conservative commentary of the network's primetime hosts.
"There is a very different story selection," Dunn said. "This isn’t us making it up." Politico
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Dunn Calls Fox an Arm of the Republican Party
Fox News is an arm of the republican party. I think we all know that. Fox is a symptom of a greater problem--the dying craft of journalism. Newspapers like to blame their demise on declining revenue from classified ads and advertising but the fact is, journalism has lost its way.
