The Treasury Department on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the network pool except Fox News. The pool is the five-network rotation that for decades has shared the costs and duties of daily coverage of the presidency and other Washington institutions.
But the Washington bureau chiefs of the five TV networks consulted and decided that none of their reporters would interview Feinberg unless Fox News was included. The pool informed Treasury that Fox News, as a member of the network pool, could not be excluded from such interviews under the rules of the pool.
Don’t know which is more shocking, this administrations attempt to control media or the other media’s response. When the Obama white house attemped to eliminate Fox, the number one cable news network, from covering the interview of pay czar Kenneth Feinberg the other networks did exactly what they should have done, they refused to do the interview without Fox.
Way to go.
Do unelected Czars actually have power? Absolutely, or should I say absolute?