So Fox News had been jabbing away at the Obama administration, and now the Obama administration has decided to hit back. White House communications director Anita Dunn has denounced Fox as political operation and not a real news organization, and vowed to push back hard when one of the network's commentators says something particularly nasty or untrue.
All of this has the blogosphere abuzz with questions: Should the White House single out a particular news organization this way? Are there any parallels here, as some have suggested, with Watergate, when the Nixon administration attacked the Washington Post? And is Fox News really a news organization?
To which I answer, no, no and yes - but...
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