The Silencing (39 page)

62
.
    
Tom 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
.

CHAPTER SEVEN: MUDDY MEDIA WATERS

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
.

39
.
    
Howard Kurtz, “Suddenly Everyone’s A Critic,”
Washington Post
, October 3, 2005,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/02/AR2005100201296_2.html
.

40
.
    
Thomas Edsall, “Journalism Should Own Its Liberalism,”
Columbia Journalism Review
, October 8, 2009,
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/journalism_should_own_its_libe.php
.