{"id":2277,"date":"2010-07-30T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T17:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2010-07-30T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T22:25:51","slug":"fox-news-has-not-earned-a-front-row-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2277","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Has Not Earned A Front Row Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House Correspondent’s Association is deciding this weekend what news agency will get the seat in the White House Press Briefing Room<\/a> that was vacated by Helen Thomas. One of those seeking the seat is Fox News.<\/p>\n

The timing of this could not be more significant. Coming on the heels of Fox’s disgraceful promotion of Andrew Breitbart’s phony video that accused an honorable woman of being a racist, how could the WHCA even entertain the notion of giving a front row seat of honor to Fox? This latest embarrassment just serves to remind people of past disgraceful acts on the part of Fox News: the smearing of Van Jones; the lies about ACORN; the fabricated controversy over the New Black Panthers; the list goes on.<\/p>\n

Fox News is NOT news. It is a blatantly partisan operation that promotes the interests of the Republican Party and conservative ideology. Giving this seat to Fox after they have so recently demonstrated how undeserving they are would be a slap in the face to journalists who work hard to uphold the ethics that their profession requires.<\/p>\n

Credo has a petition<\/a> to the WHCA urging them to give the seat to National Public Radio. NPR has been working this beat for 40 years (compared to 14 for Fox), and they serve an audience that is almost 14 times larger than Fox. Please sign the petition ASAP and let the WHCA know that we do not want Fox to be rewarded for their dishonesty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The White House Correspondent’s Association is deciding this weekend what news agency will get the seat in the White House Press Briefing Room that was vacated by Helen Thomas. One of those seeking the seat is Fox News. The timing of this could not be more significant. 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