Campbell Brown Hits White House For Criticism Of Fox News (VIDEO)

CNN host Campbell Brown criticized the White House tonight for their accusations of bias at Fox News. During her "No Bias, No Bull" segment, Brown aired a clip of an interview with senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett in which Jarrett was quick to label Fox News as biased but refused to do the same for MSNBC.

For Brown, this means that the White House has lost credibility in this argument because Fox News has been "upfront and pretty unapologetic" about their conservative bent in their prime time lineup, and MSNBC has a liberal slant to its prime time hosts. Brown then states what she sees as the "obvious":

Jarrett seems loath to admit that MSNBC has a bias. And that is where I think the White House loses all credibility on this issue. Just as Fox News leans to the right with their opinionated hosts in prime time, MSNBC leans left. I don't think anyone at Fox or MSNBC would disagree. In fact both Fox News and MSNBC are doing quite well in the prime time ratings by doing partisan opinion.

That last part is perhaps a tender spot for CNN, as they have recently sunk to last place in the prime-time demographic. As for bias at Fox News and MSNBC, the White House, along with many others, would argue that the conservative leanings of their prime-time anchors have bled into their mainstream news coverage. Brown concludes that if the White House wants to enter the conversation of bias in the media, they need to discuss on both the right and the left.

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Comments

[EBJONES119]

You guys and gals crack me up with your obvious bias for the liberal side of politics, yet you blast the other side by calling them names such as liers, ignorant and so on. What a bunch of hypocrites, that refuse to be honest with yourselves. I watch all the Networks and come to sites such as the Huffington Post to see all sides and all of them have bias news reporting. To say MSNBC is not bias is absurd. You will probably blast me as some right wing nut so go ahead, but as Martin L. King stated so well, " The truth will set you free" and I know what Campbell Brown said was the truth. As I as said earlier, you can't stand to be honest with yourselves so you will continue to make no changes in your thinking. If you can't back your arguments with facts, then your statements have no credibility with those who think through the issues. The independents are leaving the President and the Democratic party because they have not been honest with Americans.

[Lilli917]

Campbell Brown's husband works for Fox News! She's protecting the family income!

[Libra28]

Campbell's father,
James Harvey "Jim" Brown, Jr. (born May 6, 1940), is a political consultant and commentator in Baton Rouge long active in Louisiana Democratic politics. In 1972, he was elected to both the Louisiana state Senate, to which he served two terms, and to the 1973 Constitutional Convention. He was secretary of state from 1980-1988, and he ran unsuccessfully for governor in the 1987 jungle primary. He was elected insurance commissioner in 1991 and served until his resignation in October 2000. Brown's political career closed with a six-month prison sentence for lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the status of an insurance company. nad he was a base ballplayer

Like Richard M. Nixon after Watergate, Brown has sought to redeem himself politically. His 2004 book entitled Justice Denied: How the Federal Justice System Failed Former Insurance Commissioner Jim Brown seeks to refute the charges of which he was convicted in federal court and to rehabilitate his reputation. Brown was barred from practicing law until at least the end of 2006. On September 30, 2008, the Louisiana Supreme Court reinstated his right to resume his legal practice.[1]

Brown's daughter, Campbell Brown (born June 14, 1968), is a CNN news anchor and former co-anchor of NBC's Weekend Today and a former network White House correspondent and is married to Daniel Samuel "Dan" Senor (born 1971), a Republican political consultant to President George W. Bush Administration who appears regularly on Fox News in Washington, D.C.

[Libra28]

Campbell Brown's oil rich maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Campbell, owned Edgewood, a very large beautiful ante-bellum home that was on tour during the Pilgrimage in Natchez, Mississippi in the late 1960s & early 1970s. Dale Campbell, Campbell's mother, divorced Campbell's father, Jim Brown many, many years ago.

[demomntgirl]

There really is no comparison between the two.
Fox distorts, misleads. and out right LIES.
Msnbc might lean left, but they do not lie, alter tapes to mislead, and distort the facts
to lean left.

You really can not compare the two.
And by Campbell doing so, shows the depth of her journalistic talent. not much

[diidii73]

i think she is married to a GOP man, she needs toopen her eyes coz she,s starting to look full of bull and bias

[rusdr61]

soapbox campbell clueless as usual

[swift goat pet for truth]

Hmmmm... whom to believe... Campbell Brown, or Jon Stewart?...

[linzy]

Two pretty faces, not too bright...

[John Zorabedian]

Another example of the false left-right "balance" in mainstream media - it's he said, she said and equal treatment of claims. If Fox News says something, it's adding "balance" to what liberals say?

[highbury10]

What do you expect from a Georgian native-Brown. She is your quintessential blue dog democrat.

[Rubyslippers]

Campbell, you're being dishonest. The issue is not partisanship, it's about the consistent pattern of distortions. Your commentary implies that Fox is credible and is simply offering criticism the White House doesn't like. Not true. Fox's distortions of facts, etc are at such a level that they simply can't be taken seriously, and shouldn't be. Critical, implies an argument that's grounded in facts. Fox plays loose with the facts. I have a hard time believing Campbell isn't aware of this.
The blatant advertising and promotion Fox gave to the Tea Party organizati­on/rallies is another example of many where their journalistic integrity is in question.

What self-respecting "journalist" would defend Fox on this? Campbell, you should be embarrassed, but instead you're rolling in bull.

[evstevenson]

Is this a joke? Are you attempting to increase CNN ratings by inciting controversy? Surely you aren't attempting to drag this stellar News reporting program down into the same pit as FOX news. If you want to report smut, then go and join your husband and become the smutettes, but don't bother breathing the programs Fox News and MSNBC in the same breath. I have lost all respect for your program, and will never watch it again. This country is divided enough politically, and I doubt that it will ever regain civility again. You left the White House, now lay OFF the White House!!!

[nbanflfan]

Campbell who?Who cares what this lightweight thinks.

[zaknick]

rofl... flipping hack on the tube man lol

I sometimes watch FOX just to laugh at how weird the whole thing is (like watching a Nazi brainwash movie and then I horror that this is real life and that these are real live people right now who are being manipulated and lied to (or complicit) in order for people like Dick Cheney and his buddies to invade other countries for profit).

Welcome to your life, there's no turning back.

Then I try CNN just for some "hard news" and all I get is a bunch of simpering empty suits preening back and forth before the camera with banalities aplenty. Ted Turner just mentioned this same point publicly and their ratings nosedive confirms it. They lost me back at the Michael Jackson 24/7 propaganda in the midst of the most important health care debate in history.

MSNBC at least has some measure of respect but even they will never out all those skeletons in the "establishment's" closet... not really, although they have done some courageous, incisive, CONTEXTUAL news reporting.

Try programs like Listening Post or Witness etc on Al Jazeera English for some real journalism.

[solarian]

brown I compare you to a women who says $50 sailor who do you think I trust it isn' campbell

[rubberducky]

In a lame attempt to score rating for her faltering show and her network, CB intentionally missed the point. Opinion expressing have always been there ever since human invented the media. Caveman carved their opinion on the wall. Newspapers have editorials and op-eds, so do radio and television news. CNN has its own demagogue LD. That KO, RM, ES or Morning Joe for that matter are bias in their show is nothing new. They are there for that, and that is not the problem.

The problem is that Fox News makes up its own news: it fabricates stories in its opinion shows and then reports it the next days that pundits in the country are anger at the WH for such stories. The following evening, Bill O'Reilley and SH invertiew the news reporters and witnesses and right wing politicians about the "news stories" that morning, and voila you have a perfect case of fake journalism. Has CB ever seen MSNBC cheerlead protesters and report the news later? Has she ever seen MSNBC claim fair and balance in every other sentences?

Can somebody tell CNN and CB if they want their rating go up, they have to use their brain once in a while instead of just regurgitating what they hear in the subway? And for fair and balance sake, does she ever ask why CNN still employ LB?

[JaneQCitizen]

And both sides call Brown names, because she is absolutely right.

If your chosen "news" programs don't say anything that rattles your world view, then you're watching partisan news - which isn't news at all.

[Nussbaum13]

How is she right, and what is it that you think that she is right about? Please explain. She uses false equivalencies to to try to make a point that is not even being discussed. The discussion is not about Fox being right-leaning or MSNBC left-leaning. If you think that is the point of what is being discussed by the WH and others, then you have missed the point, quite completely. No wonder you think CB is right. Fox distorts the facts, or just makes them up and does not use credible sources, and certainly never makes corrections. That is the point being made about Fox, and to try and drag MSNBC into this is nothing but CB hyping up her own failing news network, trying to get people to watch CNN again. 'It's apples and oranges.' Bull pucky. News is not supposed to rattle your world view, it is supposed to tell the FACTS of a given situation. Fox does not deal in facts.

[Mary Bender]

The terms "Liberal are Conservative" aren't as strongly defined or are more blurred than they used to be. While I too have heard some say that Fox News is Conservative, I don't think that they are so conservative that they are offensive.
To me they come across as more Conservative in their Format or in the personalities of their reporters.

In terms of News reporting I have always preferred CNN, not because it is more Liberal, but because it does a better job of Journalism ,or reporting the hard and difficult stories that occur in the world each day; meaning their reporters report the facts and are more Credible in their reporting.

When I listen to certain radio programs,( I believe that are from mostly more conservative hosts), NBC and it reporting is considered "laughable". I believe, not so much because it represents Liberal politics, but because the quality or the way the news stories are done, are too much like "Fluff" compared to their predecessors, like Tom Brokaw.

[Mattie]

I agree, she is absolutely correct!

[zaknick]

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[essbird]

Does Fox have a liberal counterpart to "Morning Joe"? I don't think so. Does MSNBC spew talking points in the news segments? Nope. Does MSNBC introduce every talking point or chyron tidbit with "Many people think..." leaving the BS on the table for its base to take as fact? Nope.

No comparison. MSNBC is liberal, but they don't do it with 24/7 lies.

[simpleperson]

What planet are you from ?

[solarian]

a sane one unlike

[Nussbaum13]

The opinion of CB is that MSNBC is the Yin to Fox's Yang. But the distinction between these two channels is truly the apples and oranges that she talked about a little later in regards to CNN. MSNBC works to give full disclosure (just look at the problem Olbermann had with Richard Wolffe) and gives corrections (I have seen Olbermann and Maddow give corrections many times), and also has a conservative morning show, while Fox makes up whatever it thinks will get people scared of any kind of liberalism, or anything that it feels threatens any kind of ultra-conservative ideals, and never corrects anything. CNN obviously does not worry about full disclosure either, or else CB would have said something about her husband working at FOX, and if they gave a toss about corrections, they would make CB point out that CNN is biased too. Just take a look at Dobbs.