{"id":2885,"date":"2009-10-11T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/what-percentage-of-cable-news-watchers-identify-themselves-as-fox-viewers\/"},"modified":"2009-10-11T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T16:25:00","slug":"what-percentage-of-cable-news-watchers-identify-themselves-as-fox-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/what-percentage-of-cable-news-watchers-identify-themselves-as-fox-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"What Percentage of Cable News Watchers Identify Themselves as Fox Viewers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Think Progress \u00bb WH communications director: Fox News operates as \u2018a wing of the Republican Party.\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/11\/dunn-fox-news-2\/\">Think Progress \u00bb WH communications director: Fox News operates as \u2018a wing of the Republican Party.\u2019<\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This morning on CNN\u2019s Reliable Sources, White House communications director Anita Dunn defended her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/article\/0,8599,1929058,00.html\">recent comment<\/a> to Time magazine that Fox News is \u201copinion journalism <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/08\/dunn-fox-news\/\">masquerading<\/a> as news.\u201d Noting the inordinate amount of attention Fox devotes to stirring fake controversies like <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200909230025\">Bill Ayers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/10\/03\/obama-camp-debunks-voter_n_131686.html\">ACORN<\/a>, Dunn explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The reality of it is that Fox News often operates as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.<\/strong> And it\u2019s not ideological. I mean, obviously there are many commentators who are conservative, liberal, centrist, and everybody understands that. <strong>What I think is fair to say about Fox is \u2014 and certainly the way we view it \u2014 is that it really is more of a wing of the Republican Party.<\/strong> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re widely viewed as, you know, a part of the Republican Party \u2014 take their talking points, put them on the air, take their opposition research, put them on the air, and that\u2019s fine. But let\u2019s not pretend they\u2019re a news network they way CNN is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/11\/dunn-fox-news-2\/\">Think Progress \u00bb WH communications director: Fox News operates as \u2018a wing of the Republican Party.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress \u00bb WH communications director: Fox News operates as \u2018a wing of the Republican Party.\u2019&#160; This morning on CNN\u2019s Reliable Sources, White House communications director Anita Dunn defended her recent comment to Time magazine that Fox News is \u201copinion journalism masquerading as news.\u201d Noting the inordinate amount of attention Fox devotes to stirring fake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/what-percentage-of-cable-news-watchers-identify-themselves-as-fox-viewers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Percentage of Cable News Watchers Identify Themselves as Fox Viewers?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}