On PBS, New Yorker Editor Equates Obama ‘Freezing Out’ Fox News with Building a Civil Discourse
On Tuesday night's Charlie Rose show on PBS, New Yorker editor (and former Washington Post reporter) David Remnick equated Team Obama's attempt to demonize and “freeze out” Fox News Channel with a campaign to create civil discourse. Demonizing equals civility? CHARLIE ROSE: Do you think that the president had an opportunity that he did not seize in order to make a real contribution to the civil discourse that we`re talking about and to exhibit those things that he spoke about and those things he believed in? DAVID REMNICK: He was laughed out of court. Remember the attack on Fox News? I mean, it might not have been as smoothly done as one would have liked but there was an attempt by the Obama administration — a very concerted attempt with Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, and even the president, to either freeze out or do a critique of the rhetoric of Fox News and whether, in fact, they're news at all and all the rest of the critique that you see elsewhere in the media. And it was laughed out of court by a lot of people. read more
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On PBS, New Yorker Editor Equates Obama ‘Freezing Out’ Fox News with Building a Civil Discourse
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