Groups rally against Fox bid for White House briefing seat

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/111993-groups-rally-against-fox-seat-in-white-house-briefing-room


Groups rally against Fox bid for White House briefing seat
By Elise Viebeck - 07/31/10 10:44 AM ET


Two liberal groups are pushing against Fox News' request for a seat in the White House briefing room.

The decision to fill the front-row seat formerly held by UPI's Helen Thomas will be made Sunday by the White House Correspondents Association. Fox, NPR and Bloomberg News are the three most serious contenders for the spot.

CREDO Action, a mobile phone company that sponsors activist campaigns, started circulating an online petition Wednesday entitled 'Help NPR beat Fox.'

"FOX News is a right-wing propaganda outlet, not a legitimate news agency," it reads. "It's bad enough that we have to fight the constant smear campaigns and appeals to racial paranoia from FOX and the right-wing media. We can't let them have the best seat in the White House press briefing room and the legitimacy that it confers."

MoveOn.org has since encouraged its members to support the petition, calling Fox News in a letter "a tool in the right-wing propaganda machine."

CREDO Action has said it has gathered more than 250,000 signatures since the petition launched.

NPR released a statement Friday to clarify that it has "no position on the petitions."

Petition here:

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/fox_or_npr/index2.html

[chelaque liberal]

1. I've signed!

and sent it to my email address book.

[bluestateguy]

2. I have an idea for Plan B if Fox gets the seat anyway

Just see to it that Gibbs, Obama or whoever is giving the press conference never calls on the Fox reporter.

Then they would be embarrassed even more and for all to see: Fox's little pissant reporter sitting right there in the front like an overly eager classroom pest being ignored by the teacher.

[Kurovski]

3. K&R

Goddammit.

[Scuba]

4. I signed.

[activa8tr]

5. I signed it, too. I can't imagine why Fox would even be considered after

the way that network skewered Obama over Shirley Sherrod.

[monmouth]

6. NPR?? Really? I don't find them any better than Fox...n/t

[rawtribe]

7. Give the seat to

Amy Goodman.

:bounce:

[Kurovski]

8. Slightly.

But for all practical purposes, no.

It's great to keep well-educated, higher income americans from panicking.


Fuck, but i hope Gibbs develops a far-reaching spittle spray when he speaks.

[Exilednight]

9. Signed. Now if someone would only start a petition for the WH to pull Fox's credentials. n/t

[jenmito]

10. Signed, sealed, delivered. n/t

[felinetta]

11. Signed and sent out to my friends.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

12. sunday rec

[MH1]

13. Signed.

[and-justice-for-all]

14. I signed it! nt

[geek_sabre]

15. Well, they're in the front row now.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0810/Fox_moves_to_front_row.html