http://www.metafilter.com/tags/containment Posts tagged with 'containment' at MetaFilter. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:34:57 -0800 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:34:57 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/86089/Fox%2DupsettheWhiteHousewontcallit%2DNews Fox News's <a href="http://www.outfoxed.org/">bent</a> on the news is <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/63304/Fed-up-with-Fox-News-fight-back">well</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/tags/FoxNews">known</a>, but recently the White House has begun actively excluding the network, including <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/19/snubbed-by-obama-fox-news_n_292254.html">skipping Fox's Chris Wallace</a> on a recent round of Sunday morning news shows. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/us/politics/23fox.html?_r=1">“We simply decided to stop abiding by the fiction ... that Fox is a traditional news organization.”</a> says White House Depty Communications Director Pfeiffer (<a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/10/todays-qs-for-os-wh-10202009.html">as has Press Secretary Gibbs and others</a>). <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/topics/view/meme/Obama-v-Fox-News-393/">The responses range</a> from <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/136562">concern about an attempt to control the media</a> to <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2232563/pagenum/all/">a feeling that it's about time</a>. Is it just about Fox's anti-Obama pundits, or is it also about Fox's <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/200910200008">consistent</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAlcPH9KcxM">errors</a> and <a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/08/19/2036015.aspx">misinformed viewership</a>? Or is the White House attempting <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/20/the-real-reason-the-white-house-is-attacking-fox-news-containment/">containment</a> so that Fox's ratings-gold style and ideas don't take over the rest of the press? tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.86089 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:34:57 -0800 bias ChrisWallace containment fox FoxNews journalism media news newsfilter WhiteHouse ADoubtfulTrout http://www.metafilter.com/74119/War%2Dby%2DMiscalculation <a href="http://theygaveusarepublic.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=125">The Russo-Georgian War and the Balance of Power-</a> the Russian invasion of Georgia has not changed the balance of power in Eurasia. It simply announced that the balance of power had already shifted. (the real meat and taters starts after the first gray box) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74119 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:48:13 -0800 containment emasculation escalation georgia russia strafor war notsnot