The white house is escalating it's assault on FOX News.

Oh... the picture? That is Ms. Dunn's future in her dealings with FOX.

This is the promised change... "We will assault our enemies... we do all we can to destroy them... all the while telling all you poor idiots that we are going to be more open and transparent."

White House Escalates War on Fox News

Senior Obama administration officials took to the airwaves Sunday to accuse Fox News of pushing a particular point of view and not being a real news network.

The White House escalated its offensive against Fox News on Sunday by urging other news organizations to stop "following Fox" and instead join the administration's attempt to marginalize the channel.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN that President Obama does not want "the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox."

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is "not a news organization."

"Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way," Axelrod counseled ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "We're not going to treat them that way."

By urging other news outlets to side with the administration, Obama aides officials dramatically upped the ante in the war of words that began earlier this month, when White House communications director Anita Dunn branded Fox "opinion journalism masquerading as news.".....

Yup... this is "hope and change" we can believe in all right...

Now just what is it called in America when politicians want to control the news media... propaganda?

xtnyoda, shalomed

PS... you must go to Brutally Honest and see this admission by Ms. Dunn that the white house doesn't want to talk to reporters, but rather to control them.

Here's a tad...

President Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference.

"Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn.