TPMDC Executive Compensation: October 2009
Fox News
White House Insists Gibbs Didn't Apologize To Fox
Christina Bellantoni | October 25, 2009, 11:38AM
Fox News Logo, Treasury Department Special Master Ken Feinberg
After TPMDC posted Friday about the latest in the Fox News v. White House saga related to an interview with Ken Feinberg, a Fox executive stood firm to say the White House had excluded the network.
Several readers brought a Huffington Post story to our attention this weekend. They have an interview with Fox VP Michael Clemente where he claims White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs apologized for the situation.
I spoke to a Fox media relations aide this morning with another interview request for Clemente or the D.C. bureau chief. The aide referred us to this story in Mediaite, which also features Clemente saying Gibbs apologized. The aide would not make him available for an interview.
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Fox News
WH: We're Happy To Exclude Fox, But Didn't Yesterday With Feinberg Interview
Christina Bellantoni | October 23, 2009, 6:09PM
Fox News Logo, Treasury Department Special Master Ken Feinberg
Adding to the Fox News v. White House feud today is a dust-up over an interview with pay czar Ken Feinberg. Turns out, it was a sort of miscommunication, but the White House adds that if they had left Fox out it would be a case of "Not that there's anything wrong with that!"
The version Fox has pushed all day is that the network was excluded from an interview roundtable with Feinberg yesterday, and that bureau chiefs from ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN came to Fox's defense.
TPMDC dug into it, and here's what happened.
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