Is having your own personal fake journalist not enough anymore? According to a piece in the New York Observer (hey, it’s La Blogda, what did you want, a link to the New York Times?) by writer Joe Hagan, the White House gave CBS the cold shoulder until Rather stepped down. Then things started to be hunky dory again (or hunky dorky since W is involved.)
Hagan reports that Adam Levine, the assistant White House secretary in charge of television news until January 2004 (and who remains close to W) said CBS News still had “a lot of work to do.”
Levin suggested a scale of one to 100 to measure the relative credibility of news networks with press officials at the White House. He ranked Fox News at 90, NBC News at 80 and CBS News at “about 10.”
Fox News at 90? If that doesn’t lead credence to the notion of the conservative press, nothing does. Please, in the last election Fox declared W the winner as soon as the results from the first state came in.
