You may have heard by now that John Edwards was the first candidate to officially say no to the Fox News debate in Nevada -- and because of the hard work of so many grassroots and netroots Democrats, news is breaking tonight that Fox is out. Fox has already started striking backat John for saying no. (There's a surprise - Fox attacking a Democrat.)
Last night, Roger Ailes - the life-long Republican operative who is now Chairman of Fox News Channel - said that any candidate "who believes he can blacklist any news organization is making a terrible mistake" and "is impeding freedom of speech and free press."
This almost makes up from Edwards debacle with the two liberal bloggers. He did not make very good choices there but he definitely made the right one here.
FOX News is not the "free press", they are clearing working for the White House and for the Republican party. They have muddied the waters when it comes to media coverage in this country and had more then a small part to play in our going to war in Iraq.
The two blogger "debacle" would have been much less of a big deal if they had simply ignored it.
ReplyDeleteAs for Fox "News" - ... I don't think there's much to say. Why would anyone support that channel, ever.