Glenn Greenwald: I Defend Snowden Like MSNBC Defends Obama '24 Hours A Day'

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48. He hasn't left out Fox. (One example below...)

http://www.salon.com/2009/10/22/media_252/

THURSDAY, OCT 22, 2009
What “controlling the media” really means
The same media whining over criticisms of Fox was happy to be bullied and controlled by the Bush administration.
GLENN GREENWALD

<<...Whatever else is true, Fox has taken on a political role that is very rare, at least in modern times, for a large American news organization. Its news coverage is not merely biased or opinionated; there’d be nothing unusual about that. Instead, it is a major participant — the leading participant — in organizing, promoting and fueling protests, including street protests, against the government. Fox has undertaken a role typically played by media outlets in, say, Venezuela or various unstable, under-developed countries — sponsoring rather than reporting on protests against the government — and it is difficult to recall any recent example that is similar.

Fox has every right to do that, but the pretense that it is a news organization is ludicrous — transparently so — and there isn’t anything remotely wrong with the Obama White House saying so. Even those with high tolerance levels for blatant double standards should have a very hard time watching Bush officials of all people — along with their media-star allies — whine about criticisms of Fox coming from the White House, when the prior eight years were marked by an administration that attempted to dominate and control media coverage more than any in modern history, along with a media that seemed perfectly content, even happy, to be controlled...>>