Obama administration VS. Fox News

From http://www.tvguide.com/News/ Posted Oct. 12, 2009 By Douglas J. Rowe

The news I found in www.tvguide.com talked about the frustration between the Obama administration and the Fox news. The Obama administration says it's treating Fox News Channel as a political opponent. White House communications director Anita Dunn recently told Time magazine that she thinks the channel offers "opinion journalism masquerading as news," Also, the Times reported that the White House is limiting its members' appearances on Fox News. Last month (During September), when President Barack Obama himself made the rounds of Sunday morning talk shows, he skipped Fox. Someone quoted "They're (White House) more worried about the war on Fox than the actual war in Afghanistan." In Fox new's side, Fox's senior vice president Michael Clemente, issued a statement Monday "It's astounding the White House can't distinguish between news and opinion programming. It seems self-serving on their part." Also, Fox's senior vice president for programming, Bill Shine, told the Times every time the White House criticizes the Fox, "our ratings go up." Which is true Fox got a record of 1.2 million average viewers up from 1 million last year.

I think that it is amazing that just a media news channel is fighting against a government. Fox News is, along with CNN are very well known in South Korea too (even though we don't watch it). Even though this is very famous media, I don't know if Fox News can fight against the government. Government may make regulations, laws that would be very disadvantageous to Fox News. But It is very ironic that whenever the White House criticize Fox News, their viewers go up. Fox news had its highest average number of viewers ever since 2003, the starting Iraq war. I can't believe that Americans are more interested in news thats against the government than the actual war. The power of media is so amazing and powerful that it can make negative points of the government and show it to 1.2 million people. I wonder what those 1.2 millions people who have watched Fox News will now think of the government.