Emails Show White House Targeting Fox News Despite Denial: "The emails, obtained and released by watchdog Judicial Watch, pertain to a kerfluffle over whether the administration tried to lock Fox News out of a round of interviews with 'pay czar' Kenneth Feinberg, who was then responsible for reviewing compensation of Wall Street executives.
The perceived slight in October 2009 led to a confrontation with the press corps, not just Fox News -- afterward, the administration ultimately granted the interview to Fox News, along with other news outlets. Administration officials at the time rejected any suggestion that they had tried to exclude Fox News in the first place.
But the emails suggest the subject was at least discussed.
'The Obama administration seems to have lied about its attempt to exclude Fox News Channel from access to an interview with the 'pay czar,'' Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.
Fitton told Fox News the White House treatment was 'something Hugo Chavez might do but it really has no place in modern-day America.'
The emails cover dozens of conversations in late 2009. But in one email dated Oct. 22, 2009, White House media official Dag Vega wrote to Treasury spokeswoman Jenni LeCompte saying, 'we'd prefer if you skip Fox please.'
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