Challenged Over WH Criticism Of Fox News; President Obama ‘Not Losing Sleep Over It’

President Obama was asked if it is appropriate to be “working the umps” in regards to White House officials repeatedly calling Fox News “not a news organization.” The President appeared neither aggrieved nor apologetic in accessing the contentious relationship between Fox News and his administration, though he did claim that it was “not something that I’m losing a lot of sleep over.”

The President said “I think what our advisers have said is that we are going to take the media as it comes, and if media is operating, basically as a talk radio format, then, that’s one thing, and if it is operating as a news outlet, then that’s another, but I’m not something that I’m losing a lot of sleep over.”

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