White House War with Fox News Continues

The increasingly bitter war of words between the White House and Fox News continues this week, with word that a closed door, off the record press gathering with President Obama occurred early on in the week, with one notable absence - Fox News.  The New York Times' Jim Rutenberg has been looking at the facts and dealings behind the on-going, sometimes vicious war between the White House and Fox News. 

In his article, he says;

What both men took to be the start of a frank but productive dialogue proved, in retrospect, more akin to the round of pre-Pearl Harbor peace talks between the United States and Japan.

By the following weekend, officials at the White House had decided that if anything, it was time to take the relationship to an even more confrontational level. The spur: Executives at other news organizations, including The New York Times, had publicly said that their newsrooms had not been fast enough in following stories Fox News had been heavily covering through the summer and fall, to the White House’s chagrin — namely, the focus on past statements and affiliations of the White House adviser Van Jones that ultimately led to his resignation and questions surrounding the community activist group Acorn.

At the same time, Fox News had continued a stream of reports that rankled White House officials and liberal groups that monitor its programming for bias.

Read the full article here.