Fox News calls itself "fair and balanced," but many disput that, and call them "faux news," and opinion masquerading as journalism. Sunday on CNN’s Reliable Sources, White House communications director Anita Dunn defended the recent quote attributed to her by Time that said that Fox News is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.”
The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. And it’s not ideological. I mean, obviously there are many commentators who are conservative, liberal, centrist, and everybody understands that. What I think is fair to say about Fox is, and certainly the way we view it, is that it really is more of a wing of the Republican Party. [...]
They’re widely viewed as, you know, a part of the Republican Party — take their talking points, put them on the air, take their opposition research, put them on the air, and that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they’re a news network they way CNN is.
When asked if President Barack Obama purposely "skipped" Fox News last month, when he appeared on five Sunday morning talk shows, including Univision’s Al Punto, because of their lack of true journalism, Dunn said, yes.
When he goes on Fox, he understands he's not going on it as a news network at this point; he's going on it to debate the opposition.
Fox News calls itself "fair and balanced," but many disput that, and call them "faux news," and opinion masquerading as journalism. Sunday on CNN’s Reliable Sources, White House communications director Anita Dunn defended the recent quote attributed to her by Time that said that Fox News is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.”
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