Obama's Team Threatens to Cut-ties with Fox News

By Taylor Finch

This weekend, the White House communications director, Anita Dunn, announced that they would no longer be doing news exchanges with Fox News.

Dunn explained to the New York Times that "Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party" and that it is "pointless" to try to convince Fox News to portray the Democratic Party fairly.

Isolating Fox News is a good way to make a stab at them for good short-term affects, but there are a few negatives that could have lasting affects on President Obama's reputation.

By giving up on Fox News, it will give the network's speakers, such as Glenn Beck, even more power to sway moderates into joining the Republican view. If Obama himself does not follow up on these certain comments and attempt to correct them, Fox News watchers will forget to acknowledge his side completely.

Fox will simply use this war with the White House to boost their ratings by picking on Obama and make him look weak.

Obama does not have to necessarily put up with the unfair treatment of Fox News, but adding fuel to the fire by running away probably would not help either. This is clearly a lose all situation for the White House.

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