October 23, 2009
I’m feeling hopeful today. Maybe change is on the way.
President Obama campaigned successfully using the focus-grouped slogan “Hope and Change”. Today I found reason to hope. Lately, the Obama administration has had a full-court press against Fox News, with multiple administration officials saying publicly that Fox was not a “real news organization”. I wondered why the other news organizations were not concerned about this seed of totalitarianism growing in the Obama administration.
Thankfully the MSM (Mainstream Media) has stepped up. When the “Pay Czar” announced he would sit for “pool” interviews for all the networks concerning his efforts to violate the pay contracts for top executives of the banks and investment companies that took bailout money, he made it a point to say he would be interviewed by all the networks EXCEPT Fox News.
In an unprecedented challenge to the Obama administration, the other television networks all answered, “If Fox News doesn’t get an interview, none of us will take an interview!” or words to that effect. The Obama administration had no choice but to back down and Fox got its interview.
So, I’m feeling HOPEful today. Maybe the MSM is will CHANGE the way it covers Obama and remember its responsibility to hold politicians accountable.
