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Jen Psaki Tells CNN Reporter 'We're in Regular Contact' With Fox News About Their Vaccine Coverage
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed a report that the White House has had regular “high-level” talks with Fox News about their coverage of COVID-19 and the Covid vaccine.
At Tuesday’s daily briefing, CNN White House correspondent Phil Mattingly asked Psaki about a new report on the talks, telling her “My colleague reported that there have been some high-level discussions, regular high-level discussions, between White House officials and Fox News about coverage related to the pandemic and vaccines over the course of the last several weeks and months,” and asked, “Can you elaborate at all in terms of what those entail, and if you guys feel like you’ve had an effect on the coverage of those issues?”
Psaki confirmed the reporting while trying to reframe Mattingley’s question as part of a broad outreach effort:
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But the CNN report describes, as Mattingly said, “regular, high-level conversations” between the White House and the network, which suggests something above and beyond the normal wrangling between press shop and reporters.
And it comes hot on the heels of an ostentatious display of pro-vaccine commentary by hosts and anchors on a network that has been and continues to be, a hub for vaccine skepticism and misinformation.
At Tuesday’s daily briefing, CNN White House correspondent Phil Mattingly asked Psaki about a new report on the talks, telling her “My colleague reported that there have been some high-level discussions, regular high-level discussions, between White House officials and Fox News about coverage related to the pandemic and vaccines over the course of the last several weeks and months,” and asked, “Can you elaborate at all in terms of what those entail, and if you guys feel like you’ve had an effect on the coverage of those issues?”
Psaki confirmed the reporting while trying to reframe Mattingley’s question as part of a broad outreach effort:
...
But the CNN report describes, as Mattingly said, “regular, high-level conversations” between the White House and the network, which suggests something above and beyond the normal wrangling between press shop and reporters.
And it comes hot on the heels of an ostentatious display of pro-vaccine commentary by hosts and anchors on a network that has been and continues to be, a hub for vaccine skepticism and misinformation.
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