{"id":3120,"date":"2013-08-01T19:50:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T19:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2013-08-01T19:50:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T19:50:31","slug":"foes-ignore-obama-successes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3120","title":{"rendered":"Foes ignore Obama successes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The link attached to the blog attacks Fox News Channel for virtually ignoring some positive economic news.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/fox-doesnt-have-time-for-landmark-low-in-unempl\/195174\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/fox-doesnt-have-time-for-landmark-low-in-unempl\/195174\">http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/fox-doesnt-have-time-for-landmark-low-in-unempl\/195174<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I get that FNC \u2013 particularly the hosts of the \u201cFox and Friends\u201d morning talk show \u2013 often ignore good economic news when it speaks to the success of President Obama\u2019s economic policy.<\/p>\n<p>However, such reaction is not really unique to this president and his foes. Other media outlets have done so over many decades of reporting. Left-leaning MSNBC wasn\u2019t too keen on reporting successes during the George W. Bush administration \u2013 although looking back on it now it\u2019s difficult to recall any specifics.<\/p>\n<p>And Fox\u2019s ignoring of this data mirrors Obama\u2019s political foes on the right who\u2019ve done the same thing. Any tick in the wrong direction and those critics are all over the president with loud and forceful critiques. Any movement in the right direction you get \u2026 well, silence. Yes, it cuts both ways.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the Media Matters tattling on Fox so troublesome, though, is that the network calls itself \u201cfair and balanced.\u201d I keep scratching my head over that self-description. It\u2019s neither fair or balanced. Is MSNBC fair and balanced? Well, no, but that network doesn\u2019t trumpet itself so loudly as possessing either characteristic. To be sure, Media Matters is clearly a left-leaning watchdog organization.<\/p>\n<p>CNN is another whipping child for political conservatives. CNN\u2019s \u201csin,\u201d according to the mainstream conservative media, is that the network doesn\u2019t shill for the right wing the way Fox does. Instead, it reports the news with, shall we say, fairness and balance. It also offers a wide range of ideological punditry \u2013 with the likes of Newt Gingrich and Rich Lowry on the right and Paul Begala and Donna Brazile on the left. <\/p>\n<p>My only advice to Fox and its supporters is this: The network should stop using the false \u201cfair and balanced\u201d public relations ploy. Using such language to describe itself only exposes FNC to critics who can see through the network\u2019s thinly veiled ideology.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The link attached to the blog attacks Fox News Channel for virtually ignoring some positive economic news. http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/fox-doesnt-have-time-for-landmark-low-in-unempl\/195174 I get that FNC \u2013 particularly the hosts of the \u201cFox and Friends\u201d morning talk show \u2013 often ignore good economic news when it speaks to the success of President Obama\u2019s economic policy. However, such reaction is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Foes ignore Obama successes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1043,1790,3155,3708],"class_list":["post-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cnn","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-msnbc","tag-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}