{"id":15121,"date":"2009-10-19T05:27:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T10:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15121"},"modified":"2009-10-19T05:27:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T10:27:43","slug":"obama-administration-doesnt-like-fact-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15121","title":{"rendered":"Obama Administration doesn’t like fact-checking"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Fox News Channel<\/a>, the White House is purposely avoiding the network’s Sunday news show because it’s “opinion journalism masquerading as news”. Not at all like the networks that get tingles in their collective leg when the President’s name is mentioned. Apparently, they don’t like to be fact-checked;<\/p>\n

The White House stopped providing guests to ‘Fox News Sunday’ after Wallace fact-checked controversial assertions made by Tammy Duckworth, assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, in August. Dunn said fact-checking an administration official was “something I’ve never seen a Sunday show do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe that’s why Fox has a growing audience these days – because the other news shows don’t bother to investigate beyond the talking points issued by the White House. <\/p>\n

Can you imagine the furor if the Bush White House had treated the President’s critics this way? This is more of the tactics they’ve borrowed from Hugo Chavez – it’s certainly not American. If I worked at one of those other networks, I’d be questioning the ethics of my own employers at this point – but then, I don’t, and they won’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Fox News Channel, the White House is purposely avoiding the network’s Sunday news … Obama Administration doesn’t like fact-checking<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}