How could you question this man's journalistic integrity?
Let us not forget, for even one moment when we’ve just eaten a healthy breakfast and we’re sitting in a sunbeam or whatever, that the slogan of Fox News is “Fair and Balanced.” They host Michelle Malkin, who called Obama’s Nobel Prize an “act of global affirmative action;” they warned the nation that the President’s address to schoolchildren was an “indoctrination plan;” they covered Obama’s speech to the Congressional Black Caucus with this headline. And they’ve got this guy at right, who can be most charitably described as dressed in a brown shirt, plus Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Karl Rove and a legion of other convicted vampires, all of whom insist that they are reporting the truth, as it really exists, fair and balanced. Obviously, they aren’t. Presumably they know that, and the Obama administration knows that they know that, which creates an interesting dynamic. Fox News gets to put reporters in the White House press room just like the Washington Post does. Robert Gibbs has to call on Griff Jenkins periodically, and respond to whatever insane [sugar] comes out of his wriggling [cake] hole, and the two of them have to smile and pretend that they are not actively trying to destroy each other at all times. Fox News has a higher ratings share than CNN and MSNBC; they call themselves a news organization, and the White House has to treat them like a news organization. To borrow a phrase from Wikipedia, the Obama administration has to Assume Good Faith—even though they know good faith is nowhere near being offered to them—and that creates an interesting problem.
