Oh, so now the critics who walked out of the Fox session at the TCA are realizing that maybe their elementary-school antics are making them look bad...so what do they do? Why, they employ the timeless passive-aggressive tactic of attacking the messenger! Example 1: the Oregonian's Peter Ames Carlin sends a letter to Romanesko calling Glenn Garvin a liar, liar, pants on fire:
I was sitting about four rows behind Glenn Garvin at Fox's Monday press conferences at the TV Critics Press Tour on Monday. I have no idea what made him think that two-thirds of our colleagues left the room before the Fox News session with Roger Ailes. If some reporters left grumbling about FNC's politics they were a distinct minority. The room remained crowded, there were plenty of questions, hardly any of them were confrontational. It was the end of a hot, long day near the end of a 3-week march. To say the room emptied is simply not true.
But Garvin responds and sends Carlin to his room with no dinner:
...Characterizing the atmosphere in the room Monday is necessarily subjective. But no other news organization that has appeared at the TCA meetings opened with a video castigating critics by name, and no other news organization has been accused during a session of maintaining an "enemies list," as Ailes was, or asked to promise that they would not imbue local local newscasts with their network's "attitude," as Ailes was. And it fairly boggles my mind to imagine that Ailes could have gotten an uproarious laugh from the critics by comparing the host of a rival network's show to Hitler, as MSNBC's Keith Olbermann did a couple of days earlier....
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