“The White House’s battle with Fox News reached a new high on Sunday, when Communications Director Anita Dunn went on national television to blast Fox as a partisan organization that functions as an appendage to the Republican Party.
“Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party,” Dunn told CNN, adding, “let’s not pretend [Fox is] a news organization like CNN is.” Dunn also took her beef to The New York Times, saying in a Sunday interview that Fox is “undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House [and] we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”
Comment:
A Democracy needs opposition;it may be a party or print media or electronic media, though theoretically Press is free, which it is not, as it reflects the views of the Publishers and Editors.Right way for the establishment is to handle is to counter their stance with facts.If true, keep quiet at best.If untrue face them with facts.No use is cringing and whining.
At the same time Press is expected to be free and publishers should remember that.Else they will be targeted politically, if they are partisan.