White House ups the ante against Fox News

Today in a press briefing, Robert Gibbs followed up on Rahm Emmanuel's and David Axelrod's comments from the Sunday interview shows directed against Fox News. Gibbs reiterated the White House position that the choices that Fox News made were driven more by an interest in profits than good journalism. He said, "I would say sometimes programming can be tilted toward accentuating those profits."

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The White House seems to have committed itself to an overt policy of delegitimizing Fox News, as opposed to merely characterizing them as a source of unfriendly or unflattering news reports. This seems to go far beyond what Chris Wallace previously described as being "cry babies." As James Rosen of Fox News reported, the White House has informed Fox that the President will not appear as a guest on Fox through the remainder of the year.