14.Michael Scherer, “Calling ’Em Out: The White House Takes on the Press,” Time, October 8, 2009, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1929220,00.html.
15.Brian Stelter, “Fox’s Volley With Obama Intensifying,” New York Times, October 11, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/media/12fox.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
16.Mike Allen, “Fox ‘Not Really News,’ Says Axelrod,” Politico, October 18, 2009, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28417.html#ixzz2IYVABVlp.
17.Ibid.
18.Rutenberg, “Behind the War Between White House and Fox.”
19.Mark Jurkowitz, “Is MSNBC the place for opinion?” Pew Research Center, June 5, 2013, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/05/is-msnbc-the-place-for-opinion/.
20.Ibid.
21.Brent Baker, “CBS Takes Up White House Quest to ‘De-Legitimize’ Fox News, ‘Irony’ FNC Enabled Attack,” MRC NewsBusters, October 23, 2009, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/10/23/cbs-takes-white-house-quest-delegitimize-fox-news-irony-fnc-enabled-at.
22.“CBS News’ Chip Reid on Fox News and the Administration,” YouTube, uploaded on October 23, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnMiqIW5e1Q#t=162.
23.David Martosko, “Left-wing Foundations Lavish Millions on Media Matters,” Daily Caller, February 17, 2012, http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/17/left-wing-foundations-lavish-millions-on-media-matters/.
24.Capital Research Center, “Organization Trends,” CapitalResearch.org, https://capitalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/OT1214-1.pdf.
25.Media Matters, “About Us,” Media Matters for America, http://mediamatters.org/about.
26.Maureen Dowd, “Call Off the Dogs,” The New York Times, February 14, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-call-off-the-dogs.html?_r=0.
27.Ben Smith, “Media Matters Coordinates Campaign Against ‘Lethal’ Fox,” Politico, October 23, 2009, http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1009/Media_Matters_coordinates_campaign_against_lethal_Fox.html.
28.Ibid.
29.Steve Krakauer, “Tipping Point? White House Press Pool Stands Up for Fox News,” Mediaite, October 23, 2009, http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tipping-point-white-house-press-pool-stands-up-for-fox-news/.
30.Tommy Christopher, “Treasury Department Denies It Tried to Exclude Fox News From Interviews,” Mediaite, October 23, 2009, http://www.mediaite.com/online/treasury-denies-it-tried-to-exclude-fox-news-from-interviews/.
31.Christina Bellantoni, “WH: We’re Happy To Exclude Fox, But Didn’t Yesterday With Feinberg Interview,” Talking Points Memo, October 23, 2009, http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/wh-we-re-happy-to-exclude-fox-but-didn-t-yesterday-with-feinberg-interview.
32.“Documents Show Obama White House Attacked, Excluded Fox News Channel,” Press Room, Judicial Watch, July 14, 2011, http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/documents-show-obama-white-house-attacked-excluded-fox-news-channel/.
33.Jeff Greenfield, “President Obama’s Feud with FOX News,” CBS News, October 23, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-obamas-feud-with-fox-news/.
34.Steve Krakauer, “Fox News: White House Apologized for Pay Czar Interview Snub ‘Mistake,’” Mediaite, October 24, 2009, http://www.mediaite.com/tv/white-house-admits-to-fox-news-pay-czar-interview-exclusion-a-mistake/.
35.Greta Van Susteren, “Obama Administration Has Some Explaining to Do,” Fox News Insider, January 16, 2014, http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/2014/01/16/obama-administration-and-new-york-times-have-some-explaining-to-do/.
36.Devin Dwyer, “Today’s Q’s for O’s WH—10/20/2009,” ABC News, October 20, 2009, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/10/todays-qs-foros-wh-10202009/.
37.Ibid.
38.Mike McCurry interview with author, January 2015.
39.Ibid.
40.Franklin Foer and Chris Hughes, “Barack Obama is Not Pleased,” New Republic, January 27, 2013, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112190/obama-interview-2013-sit-down-president.
41.Alexis Sobel Fitts, “And From the Left . . . Fox News,” Columbia Journalism Review, http://www.cjr.org/feature/and_from_the_leftfox_news.php?page=all#sthash.P9SHaLy5.dpuf.
42.Lisa DePaulo, “How Joe Trippi Found Happiness at Fox News,” New Republic, October 19, 2012, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/magazine/108839/how-joe-trippi-found-happiness-fox-news?page=0,0.
43.Jim Rutenberg, “The Megyn Kelly Moment,” New York Times, January 21, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/magazine/the-megyn-kelly-moment.html?_r=0.
44.Josh Feldman, “Time’s Joe Klein Can’t Stand Watching CNN, Would Rather Watch Fox,” Mediaite, April 28, 2014, http://www.mediaite.com/tv/times-joe-klein-can’t-stand-watching-cnn-would-rather-watch-fox/.
45.Brian Stelter, “Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly Renews Contract,” New York Times, May 7, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/media/fox-news-anchor-megyn-kelly-renews-contract.html.
46.Catherine Taibi, “Megyn Kelly, ‘Attractive-Looking Blond’ Anchorwoman, Leads the Pack at Fox News,” Huffington Post, January 21, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/21/megyn-kelly-new-york-time-attractive-fox-news-anchor_n_6516162.html.
47.Katie J. M. Baker, “Fox Newsbot Megyn Kelly Hands Misogynists Their Asses on a Plate,” Jezebel, May 31, 2013, http://jezebel.com/fox-newsbot-megyn-kelly-hands-misogynists-their-asses-o-510710234.
48.Jim Romenesko, “MSNBC.com Adds Irin Carmon, Tim Noah and Others,” JimRomenesko.com, June 17, 2013, http://jimromenesko.com/2013/06/17/msnbc-com-adds-irin-carmon-tim-noah-and-others/. Also, http://irincarmon.people.msnbc.com/#51.
49.Capital Staff, “The 60-Second Interview: Irin Carmon, National Reporter, MSNBC,” Capital New York, January 16, 2015, http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/01/8560351/60-second-interview-irin-carmon-national-reporter-msnbc.
50.Jonathan Chait, “The Quintessential Fox News Image,” New Republic, April 8, 2010, http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/jonathan-chait/the-quintessential-fox-news-image.
51.Lee Siegel, “The Right, Hot, and Bothered Blondes of Fox News,” Men’s Journal, February 2013, http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-right-hot-and-bothered-blondes-of-fox-news-20130205#ixzz3PbCdcbE8.
52.Jonathan Chait, “The Fox News-iest Segment in Fox News History,” New York, March 6, 2013, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/03/fox-newsiest-segment-in-fox-news-history.html.
53.Jon Greenberg, “Image of 9 White, Blond Women Shows ‘Amazing Diversity of Fox News Anchors,’” PolitiFact, July 9, 2014 http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jul/09/facebook-posts/facebook-post-blondes-fox-news/.
54.Ben Smith, “Media Matters’ War Against Fox,” Politico, March 26, 2011, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51949.html.
55.Jacob Weisberg, “The O’Garbage Factor,” Newsweek, October 26, 2009, https://www.questia.com/article/1G1-210217914/the-o-garbage-factor.
56.Ibid.
57.Howell Raines, “Why Don’t Honest Journalists Take On Roger Ailes and Fox News?,” Washington Post, March 14, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031102523.html.
58.CNN/ORC Poll, July 23 2014, http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2014/images/07/22/rel7c.pdf.
59.Angie Drobnic Holan, “Lie of the Year: ‘If You Like Your Health Care Plan, You Can Keep It,’” PolitiFact, December 12, 2013, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-you-like-your-health-care-plan-keep-it/.
60.Dan Froomkin, “Why Journalists Shouldn’t Be Defending Fox News,” Huffington Post, March 18, 2010, updated May 25, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/23/why-journalists-shouldnt_n_331748.html.
61.Joseph Heath, “‘Straight-Up Propaganda’: Fox News, Charlatans, Conspiracy Theorists and the Religious Fanatics Endangering Democracy,” Salon.com, September 28, 2014, http://www.salon.com/2014/09/28/straight_up_propaganda_fox_news_charlatans_conspiracy_theorists_and_the_religious_fanatics_endangering_democracy/.
62.To
m Dickinson, “How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory,” Rolling Stone, May 25, 2011, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525?page=3.
63.Eddie Scarry, “Salon’s Joan Walsh: Fox News Would Have Considered Slave Owners ‘Job Creators,’” Mediaite, September 8, 2014, http://www.mediaite.com/online/salons-joan-walsh-fox-news-would-have-considered-slave-owners-job-creators/.
64.Richard Prince, “MSNBC to Apologize for Cinco de Mayo Segment,” Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, May 5, 2014, http://mije.org/richardprince/millions-changed-race-or-ethnicity-2010-census#MSNBC.
65.Teresa Mull, “Sharyl Atkisson: Don’t Give Up,” Human Events, November 7, 2014, http://humanevents.com/2014/11/07/sharyl-attkisson-dont-give-up/.
66.Amanda Terkel, “Media Matters Declares Victory: ‘The War on Fox Is Over,’” Huffington Post, January 23, 2014, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/13/media-matters-fox_n_4433207.html.
67.Rick Kissell, “Fox News Dominates Cable News Ratings in 2014; MSNBC Tumbles,” Variety, December 30, 2014, http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/fox-news-dominates-cable-news-ratings-in-2014-msnbc-tumbles-1201386523/.
68.Ibid.
69.David Zurawik, “New Level of Fox News Dominance Demands Analysis, Not Dismissal,” Baltimore Sun, November 18, 2014, http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-fox-news-ratings-dominance-demands-analysis-20141117-story.html.
70.Pamela Engel, “POLL: Fox Is the Most Trusted TV News Source In America,” Business Insider, June 10, 2014, http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-fox-is-the-most-trusted-tv-news-source-in-america-2014-6.
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1.Andrew Holowchak, Thomas Jefferson’s Philosophy of Education: A Utopian Dream (New York: Routledge, 2014), 173.
2.Lynn Sweet, “Sweet Blog Special: Obama Transparency Speech,” Chicago Sun-Times, September 4, 2007, http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/09/sweet_blog_special_obama_trans.html.
3.GLASSBOOTHdotORG, “Barack Obama on Government Transparency,” YouTube, November 3, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU0m6Rxm9vU.
4.Macon Phillips, “Change Has Come to WhiteHouse.gov,” WhiteHouse.gov, January 20, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/change_has_come_to_whitehouse-gov.
5.Donovan Slack, “Obama ends term with fewer pressers than Bush or Clinton,” Politico, January 15, 2013, http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/01/obama-ends-term-with-fewer-pressers-than-bush-or-clinton-154233.html.
6.Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, “Obama, the Puppet Master,” Politico, February 18, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/obama-the-puppet-master-87764_Page2.html.
7.Ibid.
8.Letter from news organizations hand-delivered to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, November 21, 2013, available at the Associated Press blog, http://corpcommap.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/white-house-photo-letter-final-00591175.pdf.
9.Brian Montopoli, “Elena Kagan White House ‘Interview’ Riles Reporters,” CBS News, May 12, 2010, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/elena-kagan-white-house-interview-riles-reporters/.
10.Paul Farhi, “Obama Keeps Newspaper Reporters at Arm’s Length,” Washington Post, February 10, 2013, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-10/lifestyle/37025955_1_newspaper-group-interviews-obama-campaign.
11.“Steve Kroft on Why Obama Appears on 60 Minutes: ‘I Think He Knows That We’re Not Going to Play Gotcha with Him,” RealClearPolitics, January 29, 2013, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/01/29/steve_kroft_on_why_obama_appears_on_60_minutes_i_think_he_knows_that_were_not_going_to_play_gotcha_with_him.html.
12.“Letter Urges President Obama to Be More Transparent,” Society of Professional Journalists, July 8, 2014, http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1253.
13.Paul Farhi, “Reporters Say White House Sometimes Demands Changes to Press-Pool Reports,” Washington Post, September 23, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/reporters-say-white-house-sometimes-demands-changes-to-press-pool-reports/2014/09/23/e5e6fec8-42d9-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html.
14.Ann Marimow, “A Rare Peek into a Justice Department Leak Probe,” Washington Post, May 19, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe/2013/05/19/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html; Michael Isikoff, “DOJ Confirms Holder OK’d Search Warrant for Fox News Reporter’s Emails,” NBC News, May 23, 2013, http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18451142-doj-confirms-holder-okd-search-warrant-for-fox-news-reporters-emails?lite.
15.Dylan Byers, “Report: DOJ Seized Phone Records of James Rosen’s Parents,” Politico, May 22, 2013, http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/05/report-doj-seized-phone-records-of-james-rosens-parents-164541.html.
16.Tom McCarthy, “James Rosen: Fox News Reporter Targeted as ‘Co-Conspirator’ in Spying Case,” Guardian, May 21, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/20/fox-news-reporter-targeted-us-government.
17.“White House Escalates War of Words with Fox News,” Fox News, October 12, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/12/white-house-escalates-war-words-fox-news/.
18.Michael Isikoff, “‘Double Standard’ in White House Leak Inquiries,” NBC News, October 18, 2010, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39693850/ns/us_news-security/t/double-standard-white-house-leak-inquiries/#.VMOTJC7F8YQ.
19.Tal Kopan, “Eric Holder: James Rosen Probe ‘Appropriate,’” Politico, June 20, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/eric-holder-james-rosen-93100.html.
20.Olivier Knox, “Obama Administration Spied on Fox News Reporter James Rosen: Report,” Yahoo!, May 20, 2013, http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obamaadmin-spied-fox-news-reporter-james-rosen-134204299.html.
21.“Holder Says ‘Subpoena’ to Fox News Reporter Is His One Regret,” Fox News, October 30, 2014 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/29/holder-says-subpoena-to-fox-news-reporter-is-his-one-regret/.
22.Charlie Savage and Lisa Kaufman, “Phone Records of Journalists Seized by U.S.,” New York Times, May 13, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/us/phone-records-of-journalists-of-the-associated-press-seized-by-us.html?pagewanted=all.
23.Leonard Downie, “Obama’s War on Leaks Undermines Investigative Journalism,” Washington Post, May 23, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/leonard-downie-obamas-war-on-leaks-undermines-investigative-journalism/2013/05/23/4fe4ac2e-c19b-11e2-bfdb-3886a561c1ff_story.html.
24.28 CFR Ch. 1 (7-1-10 Edition), U.S. Government Publishing Office, 44, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2010-title28-vol2/pdf/CFR-2010-title28-vol2-sec50-10.pdf.
25.Roger Yu, “Feds Seize AP Phone Records For Criminal Probe,” USA Today, May 13, 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/05/13/justice-department-associated-press-telephone-records/2156521/.
26.Associated Press, “Justice Department Secretly Obtained AP Phone Records,” Fox News, May 13, 2013, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/13/justice-department-secretly-obtains-ap-phone-records/.
27.Matt Apuzzo, “Times Reporter Will Note Be Called to Testify in Leak Case,” New York Times, January 12, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/us/times-reporter-james-risen-will-not-be-called-to-testify-in-leak-case-lawyers-say.html?_r=0.
28.Amy Calder, “New York Times reporter James Risen at Colby: ‘Obama hates the press,’” Portland Press Herald, October 5, 2014, http://www.pressherald.com/2014/10/05/colby-college-honoring-new-york-times-reporter/.
29.Glenn Greenwald, “Obama campaign brags about its whistleblower persecutions,” Guardian, September 5, 2012, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/05/obama-campaign-brags-about-whistleblower-persecutions; Verbiage also available at Obama’s president-elect website: http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/.
30.Leonard Downie Jr. and reporting by Sara Rafsky, “The Obama Administration and the Press,” Committee to Protect Journalists, October 13, 2013, https://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.phphttp:/
/cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillancepost-911.php.
31.Rupert Allman, Arwa Gunja, and Jillian Weinberger, “‘A New Level of Secrecy and Control’: Jill Abramson and the Obama White House,” The Takeaway, April 10, 2014, http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/new-level-secrecy-and-control-nytimes-chief-jill-abramson-obama-white-house/.
32.Juliet Eilperin, “How Obama’s anti-leak policy has chilled the free press,” Washington Post, October 11, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/10/11/how-obamas-anti-leak-policy-has-chilled-the-free-press/.
33.Carey Shenkman, interview with author, December 19, 2014.
34.Leonard Downie Jr., “Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism,” Washington Post, May 23, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/leonard-downie-obamas-war-on-leaks-undermines-investigative-journalism/2013/05/23/4fe4ac2e-c19b-11e2-bfdb-3886a561c1ff_story.html; Leonard Downie Jr., “In Obama’s war on leaks, reporters fight back,” Washington Post, October 4, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-obamaswar-on-leaks-reporters-fight-back/2013/10/04/70231e1c-2aeb-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html.
35.Leonard Downie Jr. with reporting by Sara Rafsky, “Leak Investigations and surveillance in post-9/11 America,” Committee to Protect Journalists, http://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.phphttp://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php.
36.Downie Jr., “Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism”; Downie Jr., “In Obama’s war on leaks, reporters fight back.”
37.Glenn Greenwald, “Obama Campaign Brags About Its Whistleblower Persecutions,” Guardian, September 5, 2012, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/05/obama-campaign-brags-about-whistleblower-persecutions.
38.“Media Bias Basics: Admissions of Liberal Bias,” Media Research Center Archives, http://archive.mrc.org/biasbasics/biasbasics2.asp; Daniel Okrent, “The Public Editor: Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?,” New York Times, July 25, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/opinion/the-public-editor-is-thenew-york-times-a-liberal-newspaper.html.
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