White House Tells CNN They Are Punishing Fox News

Meredith Jessup | October 11, 2009 8:38 PM

In an interview with CNN's "Reliable Sources," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn elaborates on comments she made in Time magazine about Fox News, calling the network "opinion journalism masquerading as news."

During the interview, Dunn admits the White House is punishing Fox News for its "negative" coverage of the president--including the exclusion of Fox during Obama's weekend media blitz last month. Despite not giving any examples of actual inaccurate reporting on Fox's part, Dunn whined that "Fox News often operates as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party."

As ridiculous as that sounds, somehow I doubt Fox is losing sleep over the White House's one-man boycott; the network now claims all top 10 show slots in the cable news ratings race: