Could you please point out and cite the accusations that you accuse FOX News of directing toward Secretary Kerry?
I would be interested to see them, and I cannot find anything by looking at FOX News that I find accusatory, and especially misleading or untruthful. On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:55 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > wrote: > he Obama administration is frustrated by journalists who point out their > hostile treatment of Fox News > --- > considering their accusations toward him, he should completely ignore them. > > On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 9:32:02 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/21/top-kerry-aide-tries-to- >> squash-claim-of-anti-fox-news-bias-by-lying-to-the-daily- >> caller/?advD=1248,98057 >> >> >> >> Top Kerry Aide Tries To Squash Claim Of Anti-Fox News Bias By Lying To >> The Daily Caller >> >> 10:03 PM 07/21/2014 >> >> It’s well-known in Washington that the Obama administration is frustrated >> by journalists who point out their hostile treatment of Fox News and other >> uncooperative members of the press corps. But what happens when an >> important official resorts to lies and distortions to intimidate a reporter >> into retracting a bias claim his boss would rather not be published? >> >> On Sunday, July 20, The Daily Caller reported on the tense exchange >> between John Kerry and “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace >> <http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/20/kerry-angrily-spars-with-foxs-chris-wallace-you-like-to-ask-questions-but-you-dont-like-to-get-answers/>. >> “After months of shutting Fox News out of his Sunday show appearances,” the >> report began, “a downed airliner in Ukraine and an ongoing Israeli invasion >> of Gaza compelled Secretary of State John Kerry to finally appear on ‘Fox >> News Sunday.’” >> >> That was the last time that story mentioned Kerry’s consistent absence >> from Fox’s flagship Sunday program. >> >> So we were surprised when an angry email appeared in this reporter’s >> inbox the next morning from the private Gmail account of Glen Johnson >> <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/205813.htm>, the State >> Department’s deputy assistant secretary of public affairs and a top adviser >> to John Kerry. >> >> “Off the record, please . . .” he began, before upbraiding this reporter >> for his “factually inaccurate” claim that Kerry was ducking “Fox News >> Sunday.” >> >> “EVERY TIME the Secretary has done round-robin interviews with >> the Sunday shows, he has appeared on Fox,” Johnson exclaimed. “He did so >> this weekend, on March 2, on Nov. 24, and Sept. 1, when, after six months >> on the job, he started to doing [sic] public interviews.” >> >> “We’d appreciate it if you’d share this with your editor and correct the >> record,” he wrote, after concluding with a screed on how Kerry has “strived >> to be fair and balanced” with Fox News. “Failing that, we hope the facts — >> not fiction — will lead to more accurate reporting/ conjecture going >> forward.” >> >> Here’s that email in full: >> >> >> <http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Glen-Johnson-Email1.png>[image: >> Glen Johnson Email] >> <http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Glen-Johnson-Email1.png><img >> class="alignnone size-large wp-image-4262764" alt="Glen Johnson Email" src=" >> http://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/ >> 07/Glen-Johnson-Email1-620x374.png" width="620" height="374" /> >> >> TheDC would have honored Johnson’s off-the-record request — as we honor >> all valid requests to remain off-the-record — were it not for two crucial >> points: We never agreed to the request, and Johnson’s facts are just plain >> wrong. >> >> First, this reporter never agreed to Johnson’s off-the-record request >> before he sent the email. That agreement is a key part of journalistic >> ethics well known to anyone who deals with media or has a prior history in >> reporting — as Johnson does. >> >> Second and more importantly, an off-the-record request gives no one — >> particularly not a powerful member of government — carte blanche to lie and >> distort in an attempt to coerce a reporter into withdrawing a factual >> assertion his department is uncomfortable with. >> >> And that’s what seems to have happened here, because Johnson’s key point >> against TheDC’s claim — that Kerry appeared on Fox News “EVERY TIME” he >> conducted interviews with the other major Sunday shows — is wholly >> inaccurate. >> >> Kerry did not sit down with Chris Wallace on March 2, 2014, as Johnson >> claimed. TheDC knows this because we wrote up Wallace’s complaint >> <http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/03/is-the-obama-admin-freezing-fox-news-out-of-foreign-policy/> >> the very next day. >> >> “For the record, we invited Secretary of State Kerry to join us today,” >> the television reporter noted, angry that the secretary had ignored his >> viewers just two days after Russia invaded Crimea. “But although the White >> House put him out on all the other broadcast Sunday shows, they declined to >> make him available to us — or you.” >> >> And Kerry also did not appear on “Fox News Sunday” on Nov. 24, 2013, as >> Johnson claimed. A transcript from that date >> <http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday-chris-wallace/2013/11/24/sens-corker-cardin-react-nuclear-deal-iran-sarah-palin-talks-dc-dysfunction-bashir#p//v/2863789397001> >> reveals >> that Wallace led the program with reactions of two Republican senators on >> the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran. Kerry went on CNN, ABC >> and CBS — but not Fox. >> >> That means that until last Sunday, Kerry had not been on Chris Wallace’s >> program since Sept. 1, 2013. That’s over 10 months that he appeared on each >> of the other four major Sunday shows — most of them more than once — but >> not Fox. What better phrase to describe it than a shut out? >> >> Johnson admitted his “mistake” once confronted. “Apologies for foisting >> inaccurate figures on you,” he wrote in an email response sent from his >> Gmail account — this time without even linking to his official government >> address. >> >> >> <http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Glen-Johnson-Response-Email-.png>[image: >> Glen Johnson Response Email] >> <http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Glen-Johnson-Response-Email-.png><img >> class="alignnone size-large wp-image-4262746" alt="Glen Johnson Response >> Email" src="http://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/ >> 07/Glen-Johnson-Response-Email--620x419.png" width="620" height="419" /> >> >> He insisted “there has been no effort to shut out or dodge Fox” — but >> offered no explanation as to how a top strategic communications adviser to >> the secretary of state could have made an assertion so clearly and provably >> wrong. >> >> It’s a question worth asking, because a media outlet without the >> resources TheDC possesses could have been confused and browbeaten into >> changing their lede once confronted with such an intimidating response. It >> can be scary for a reporter to be told he’s gotten the facts wrong, and >> doubly so when the accusation emanates from a powerful and authoritative >> federal agency. >> >> TheDC asked Johnson if this was a deliberately dishonest attempt to bully >> a reporter into withdrawing a factual claim, but did not receive a >> response. It’s difficult to believe, however, that a communications >> professional with decades of experience would so carelessly impugn a media >> outlet’s credibility without even a cursory glance at the facts. >> >> Last fall, the Committee to Protect Journalists released a report >> <http://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php> >> noting >> that the “control freak” Obama White House routinely calls up journalists >> to quibble over headlines, ledes and story premises. “Sometimes their >> levels of sensitivity amaze me,” said Washington Post Managing Editor Kevin >> Merida. >> >> Trying to deceive a reporter in order to scuttle a narrative your boss >> finds troublesome? 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