Who’s afraid of big, bad Fox? Garance Francke-Ruta at TAPPED, that’s who. She dimwittedly believed (with the encouragement of Moveon.org) that John Edwards was actually going to take a moral stand against Fox News and shot from the lip and heaped praise on him before actually doing any reporting … or even thinking about it. Excuse me while I laugh myself silly:
A BOLD MOVE. John Edwards is the first Democratic presidential candidate to pull out of the Fox News sponsored Democratic presidential primary debate scheduled to take place in Nevada later this year, and kudos to him for doing so. None of the Democrats will get a fair hearing on that channel as it currently exists, and freezing Fox out of the loop early is a good way to make a play for fairer coverage later in the campaign season, as well as for fair treatment of the eventual nominee. Fox is biased, but it’s still enough of a news organization that a lack of access will sting mightily and could lead to newsroom reforms.
Oops! A few hours later, she realized the, um, error in her, um, judgment:
A POTENTIALLY AWKWARD MOVE. I’d like to revise and extend my remarks on John Edwards and the Nevada Fox News debate, as I’ve just received new information that casts Edwards’ decision in a rather different light.
That “new information”? Why, it’s that the
Congressional Black Caucus [CBC] Political Education and Leadership Institute plans to announce two debates in concert with Fox News,
and that the CBC has previously worked with Fox News, in 2003.
So I guess Fox News is okay now. ‘Cause the it’s okay with the CBC. And we don’t want any “intra-party” fighting now, do we?
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