Fox News Breaks From Obama In Order To Criticize Obama

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by Colby Hall | 2:47 pm, January 29th, 2010

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There is no question why all three cable news channels carried the recent discussion between Obama and House Republicans – it was remarkably entertaining television. One cable news channel chose to break early from the coverage however, and, judged by ratings, it just so happens to be the most influential. Fox News interrupted the live feed to claim that the President was “combative”, and that Obama “acknowledged a couple of mistakes.” Maybe bipartisanship isn’t good for cable news?

Both Obama and House GOP deserve credit for two thing sorely missing in today’s toxic political climate: civility and transparency. Both MSNBC and CNN stayed with the compelling broadcast through to its end. Fox News however, cut from the broadcast at 1:11, over 20 minutes before it ended. Sadly, the last 20 minutes of the event dealt almost exclusively with bipartisanship and the ending the demonization from both parties, which Obama claimed, “would lead to mutual destruction.”

Dayside news host Trace Gallagher had on Bret Baier to analyze the discussion while it was still proceeding. Perhaps also worth noting is that negative tone of the coverage of this event: Gallagher basically presented the dialog with “there was a little bit of lecturing there and the president was a little bit combative at times.” See for yourself in the video below:

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roxsteady

No Colby, it’s just not good for fox because as you’ve just noted, they cut away to bash the President for defending himself and quite amply I might add. It was priceless!
sarainitaly

I think their analysis was quite fair. I figure they cut away to hold on to viewers. Some people just can’t stand to listen to Obama over and over and over and over again. Kind of like MSNBC didn’t want to listen to Scott Brown go on and on the night he won.

How much time do networks have to give the president anyway? Don’t they have to pay their bills?
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

During their post-show, C-SPAN said that they’rerun the entire event in its entirety at 8pm (Eastern) and the full hour and thirty-four minutes is available on their website.
sarainitaly

i’m watcing now on video. i am quite pleased to see him working without TOTUS!
http://www.sailrabbits.com Magister

they’re -> they’ll; entire… entirety = I really should proofread and not do two things at once.
JimW

Hi Magister, I think we’re all pretty good at reading typo, and Mediaite is also pretty good at slanting the news, too.
sarainitaly

Magister says:
January 29, 2010 at 3:37 pm

I love an edit button!
TfT

From what I saw it was a lot of lecturing and somewhat combative. As Sarainitaly says this is no different than CNN and MSNBC not carrying Scott Brown’s victory speech, but I don’t recall a headline here that read:

MSNBC breaks from Scott Brown victory speech to criticize him.

Is this FDS or what?
Fidoohki

I think Foxnews made a mistake breaking coverage on this. It is unpresidented afterall.
JunkJunk

Dang, Tina. Could you NOT regurgitate a talking point word for word? Grab a thesaurus for chrissakes! At least make it APPEAR as though you’re sharing an original thought…
MooseOfReason

According to the New York Times, the event was one hour, twenty-two minutes long. Fox News cutting it short by 20 minutes means they streamed about 78% of the event.

If Fox News were trying to help Republicans, wouldn’t they air the rest of the event, instead of reporting other news?

It aired during the Fox News show “Live Desk”, which is a two-hour show. They used an hour of that for the President.

Honestly, I don’t think Fox News did anything wrong here, and I’m pretty sure you’re just looking for dragons to slay.
Jim R

Clearly Roger Ailes had seen enough honest facts and ideas destroying empty Republican rhetoric.

Good on the real news organizations that elected to broadcast this historically significant event in its entirety, rather than the Republican Tea Party Channel going into to full damage control while the twitching corpses of their brethren were still warm.
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