I find your post title quite humorous. What has government transparency got to do with the current Administration calling a politically motivated media organization out on its partisanship? As your opinion based columnist points out, the last Administration's top strategist and domestic policy wonk works for Fox. How impartial is Karl Rove?

The Obama Administration is simply doing what their constituency on the left has been begging our government to do for years. Ignore outlets that refuse to impartially cover events, and whose only motivation is to cheer lead extreme right wing positions that further divide the nation. 

From the outset Fox has sought to undermine virtually all efforts by both the Democrat majority Congress, and the new Administration. News footage has been publicly produced showing Fox and its reporting staff not covering events but instigating event actions for ratings sake with its extreme right-wing base.

Your op-ed piece seems to think that if one of the five major media organizations is denied certain access to public relations people within government transparency is lost? You might want to rethink that position, and urge the producers at Fox to follow guidelines of impartiality that the other media companies do practice. I find plenty of argument against policy positions advocated by Democrats on every other channel, but I also find some sense of balance in reporting facts and political events as they happen, which is nearly always missing at Fox. Fox finds itself in a spin cycle of its own making and refuses to rinse away one-sided soap scum of continual attack against any proposal from the left. 

They have hired straw men to sit on left oriented positions to be whittled down by right-wing pundit groups who outnumber the poor straw-stooge five to one on every issue discussion. Fox has become simply a visual extension of talk radio, laced with bias and anger at anything perceived as threatening the status quo of this religious militaristic chauvinism permeating this country's power structure.   

I have watched the Fox crawl misidentify Republican after Republican with the notation of being a Democrat under the name of each conservative individual who has been caught in some web of deceit by reporters. It is not an accident, and it is not a joke. Now the joke is on Fox, who has been particularly hostile from the very outset of this President's term.

There are 1,440 minutes in each day, and the new President has been on the job nine months, or roughly 270 days. This adds up to 388,800 minutes of coverage by the media. If you captured all the positive comments and put them together from the Fox media organization over the course of these first 388,800 minutes as a new Presidential Administration I believe you might find 60 minutes of positive commentary.

This is not about transparency, this is about demanding fair and balanced coverage from a conglomerate that uses the line as a marketing slogan.

Saying Fox reports the news is like saying National Enquirer reports the news. I get the impression that some of the administration staff tried to win an argument with a fanatic or a lunatic. Can't be done. The administration does have a point, even though I don't agree how they express it: Network news has taken on a tabloid demeanor.

Rush Limbaugh has been insulting Obama for years, long before the president was a candidate. In one of his books, Obama writes, I don't mind that Rush Limbaugh calls me Osama. He was putting critics in prosepective while getting his message across, which is what got him elected.

The Dunn statement was poorly worded at best, stupid at least. The Thoughts of Chairman Mao is intriguing for the readable simplicity on a number of topics. I have never thought of Mao as a philosopher. But I guess if one wants to stretch a definition, Sarah Palin or Whoopi Goldberg is a philosopher.

The entire American news media was completely in the tank for Obama - except Fox News.  So now the Obama White House has morphed into a petty and vindictive high school clique and they are determined to diss Fox News.  The immaturity and unprofessionalism is amazing to watch, and the Obama White House is now looking paranoid and scared - you know, Nixonian.  

LIberals, of course, are circling the wagons.  They were always delighted when CBS News and Dan Rather focused solely on destroying the Nixon White House, and they sang with glee when the New York Times spent 8 years dissecting George W. Bush.  But since Fox News didn't endorse and campaign for Obama, like the rest of the media, liberals are determined to demean them, marginalize them and spread the hate around.  But it isn't working.

Americans are not stupid.  They know dysfunction when they see it, and they see it now.  Obama's approval rating is sinking like a rock and his rabid, radical globalism will drive it even lower - along with the Democrats' future.  But this silly jihad against Fox News should alarm his sycophants and make them wonder.  The childishness with which this administration is operating will be its' eventual undoing. 

Go to FactCheck.org and see how accurate Fox is.

the rhetoric from the oval office is going to get much, much worse before it gets better

i heard emmanuel say, " i understand that the tactics employed by Fox news is a money-maker".....maybe not quite exactly the same, but you get the jist

At least Fox news didnt need a governement bailout like GE did, who just happens to own the entire NBC network, which owns the hate-spewing MSNBC news crew. Which makes NBC bought and paid for by the government.  of course they will push the white house agenda...they  have no choice

it just seems to me that anyone who isnt in lock-step with this administration is called out.  the funny thing is, they get called out by people like Van Jones and David Axelrod.....whom are FAR from perfect.

it seems some of the lefties TYPICALLY forgot how bad MSNBC, CNN and others treated the previous administration.  I am far from a bush lover....but i remember all the cracks and jokes about Bush and Cheney constantly during those 8 years.

now you get back what you dished out, and you cannot take it?

WUSSIES

Nobody from the left treated George W. Bush the way Barack Obama has been treated by Fox News and the "teabag brigade."  The first three years of the Bush Administration had virtually no complaints from all the major media outlets. A couple of progressive magazines like The Nation and Mother Jones opposed many of the Bush policies that first year but the big media conglomerates all were in step with President Bush. And even the progressive magazines never stooped to the level many of the conservative opinion vehicles have these first nine months.

As a matter of fact, absolute fact, the progressive blog Daily Kos was not founded until 2002 out of the sheer frustration many on the left felt toward the big media organizations. learnem, you couldn't get a fact straight with a ruler. And really, name calling is about all the juice you and your favorite news organization have to offer.  So please continue to show your extremely limited reasoning ability and call those you disagree with more names.

short memory you have there ADAM..  He was hammered from the beginning, starting with the hanging chads in florida, and the cries of "he's not my president" from the left

so now daily KOS should be cool with ABC, CBS, NBC and especially CNN and MSNBC huh?