Wow. I confess to a considerable amount of surprise that the other networks stood by Fox. I wonder if we'll find out more to the story in the coming days, or if it's more along the lines of simply not wanting Fox to declare an all-out ratings war. You know they would win, even with four against one odds. I just have a hard time believing -- after having my eyes open for the past year or so -- that they would stand on any sort of journalistic ethics or solidarity in opposition to The One. But that's just me.
Anyway, Hot Air offers this:
Decide for yourself what the most disgraceful aspect of this is. Was it the fact that Gibbs told Jake Tapper explicitly on Monday that the White House wouldn’t try to dictate to the press pool who should and shouldn’t be included — before doing precisely that? Was it Anita Dunn going out of her way to say she respects Major Garrett as a fair reporter — before the administration decided he didn’t deserve a crack here at Feinberg? Or was it the repeated insistence by Dunn and Axelrod that of course the administration will make its officials available to Fox — before pulling the plug today?
Personally, I'd vote for the most disgraceful aspect being the simple fact that they would even contemplate this in the first place. But Hot Air goes on:
The other networks deserve the praise they’re getting for standing up to the Baby-in-Chief, but if they had acquiesced in this freezeout, a precedent would have been set that would have been eagerly used by future Republican presidents to close them off too. And don’t think they weren’t all keenly aware of it.Yeah, it could be that, too.
There's my two cents.
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