Kelly McParland: In Obama versus Fox News, the odds are on Fox
Picking a fight with the media, even for a still-popular president, is rarely a good idea. For Barack Obama, who put the White House
on a war footing with Fox News this week, it's one headache more than he needs.
There's no question that journalists can be pests. Reporters, editors and columnists can be self-important, ill-informed, lazy, biased and reluctant to delve much beyond surface appearances. Plenty are happy to quit asking questions once their prejudices have been confirmed. The same is true for politicians. To a degree you could say we deserve one another, but in a head-to-head battle it's the hacks who are more likely to win, because there are more of us than there are of them, we don't have to get re-elected every few years, and we usually get the last word.
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Picking a fight with the media, even for a still-popular president, is rarely a good idea. For Barack Obama, who put the White House on a war footing with Fox News this week, it's one headache more than he needs.
There's no question that journalists can be pests. Reporters, editors and columnists can be self-important, ill-informed, lazy, biased and reluctant to delve much beyond surface appearances. Plenty are happy to quit asking questions once their prejudices have been confirmed. The same is true for politicians. To a degree you could say we deserve one another, but in a head-to-head battle it's the hacks who are more likely to win, because there are more of us than there are of them, we don't have to get re-elected every few years, and we usually get the last word.
Kelly McParland: In Obama versus Fox News, the odds are on Fox Picking a fight with the media, even for a still-popular president, is rarely a good idea. For Barack Obama, who put the White House on a war footing with Fox News this week, it's one headache more than he needs.
There's no question that journalists can be pests. Reporters, editors and columnists can be self-important, ill-informed, lazy, biased and reluctant to delve much beyond surface appearances. Plenty are happy to quit asking questions once their prejudices have been confirmed. The same is true for politicians. To a degree you could say we deserve one another, but in a head-to-head battle it's the hacks who are more likely to win, because there are more of us than there are of them, we don't have to get re-elected every few years, and we usually get the last word.
Kelly McParland: In Obama versus Fox News, the odds are on Fox Picking a fight with the media, even for a still-popular president, is rarely a good idea. For Barack Obama, who put the White House on a war footing with Fox News this week, it's one headache more than he needs.
There's no question that journalists can be pests. Reporters, editors and columnists can be self-important, ill-informed, lazy, biased and reluctant to delve much beyond surface appearances. Plenty are happy to quit asking questions once their prejudices have been confirmed. The same is true for politicians. To a degree you could say we deserve one another, but in a head-to-head battle it's the hacks who are more likely to win, because there are more of us than there are of them, we don't have to get re-elected every few years, and we usually get the last word.
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