According to the Washington Post, the "Trump White House" is now the "Fox News White House." As former Fox News anchor Heather Nauert was selected by President Donald Trump to replace Nikki Haley as U.N. ambassador, Post columnist Philip Bump decried the "Foxification" of the White House.
Without any context for those seven FNC hires, the Washington Post's criticism is meaningless.
How many journalists did Barack Obama hire? The answer is nearly three times as many, and ironically, it was another writer at the Washington Post, Paul Farhi, who called foul on Obama's massive hiring of left-wing journalists back in 2013 following the hiring of TIME's Richard Stengel.
While Farhi noted that it's common for presidents to hire members of the press, he expressed concern at the time, because "Obama may be different in terms of the sheer number of ink-stained wretches and other news-media denizens that he has attracted." More specifically: "The pattern of Obama hires has periodically aroused suspicions about the media's allegedly cozy relationship with the president."
Obama hired at least 23 journalists, and hilariously, hired nearly as many solely from the Washington Post as Trump has hired exclusively from Fox.
Either way, Obama has hired roughly three times as many journalists are Trump has, and of course, they were all journalists who previously cozied up to the administration in their work.
The only attempt I've seen for a rebuttal to this fact came from The Washington Post's Erik Wemple, who argued that Obama's hiring was different because they weren't all from one network.
https://bongino.com/washington-post-blasts-foxification-of-white-house-forgets-obama-hired-3x-more-journalists/
Without any context for those seven FNC hires, the Washington Post's criticism is meaningless.
How many journalists did Barack Obama hire? The answer is nearly three times as many, and ironically, it was another writer at the Washington Post, Paul Farhi, who called foul on Obama's massive hiring of left-wing journalists back in 2013 following the hiring of TIME's Richard Stengel.
While Farhi noted that it's common for presidents to hire members of the press, he expressed concern at the time, because "Obama may be different in terms of the sheer number of ink-stained wretches and other news-media denizens that he has attracted." More specifically: "The pattern of Obama hires has periodically aroused suspicions about the media's allegedly cozy relationship with the president."
Obama hired at least 23 journalists, and hilariously, hired nearly as many solely from the Washington Post as Trump has hired exclusively from Fox.
Either way, Obama has hired roughly three times as many journalists are Trump has, and of course, they were all journalists who previously cozied up to the administration in their work.
The only attempt I've seen for a rebuttal to this fact came from The Washington Post's Erik Wemple, who argued that Obama's hiring was different because they weren't all from one network.
https://bongino.com/washington-post-blasts-foxification-of-white-house-forgets-obama-hired-3x-more-journalists/
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