While I know it doesn’t rise to the journalistic importance of the “Balloon Boy” story, I would have thought yesterday’s press conference at the National Press Club featuring Hannah Giles, James O’Keefe, Andrew Breitbart and the latest video featuring the Philadelphia office of ACORN would have gathered a little more main-stream media attention.
This past Sunday, David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel made unprecedented statements on the Sunday morning shows. They both echoed the same two talking points which were essentially:
1. Fox News is not really a legitimate news source because it has a ‘point of view’ and2. We encourage all legitimate news networks to stop treating them as if they are legitimate.
The ACORN press conference and new video have been news for over 24 hours, and as of now, the networks’ coverage is as follows:
Fox News – ran a story within an hour of the press conference and duplicated coverage on their web page
NBC – nothing
MSNBC – nothing
CNN – nothing
AP ran a story late yesterday.
CBS – has only re-run the AP story
ABC – has only re-run the AP story
MSNBC – nothing
CNN – nothing
AP ran a story late yesterday.
CBS – has only re-run the AP story
ABC – has only re-run the AP story
I’m just wondering… do you think the networks got the White House’s message?