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During the Cold War, the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe were among the broadcast entities that effectively penetrated the Iron Curtain to deliver truth to the "captive nations" that were being fed a steady dose of propaganda by their communist rulers. Those dictators did everything they could to "jam" the signals so that their people would only hear what their unelected overseers wanted them to hear.
While the Obama administration is the product of an election, its approach to the Fox News Channel, conservative talk radio and possibly the Internet appears similar to that of dictators who desire control over the flow of information in order to enhance their power.
Like those Cold War truth tellers, Fox is simply delivering information to a rapidly growing audience that wants to see and hear what the other media are not telling it. Fox — and talk radio — are reporting on the backgrounds and statements of Obama administration officials.
Fox didn't create the statements and actions of Van Jones, the now-former energy czar, who signed a petition questioning whether Bush administration officials allowed Sept. 11 to happen as a possible pretext for going to war.
No Fox News employee wrote the speeches and comments of White House communications director Anita Dunn, who told graduating high school seniors that one of her "favorite philosophers" is the mass murderer Mao Zedong.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now might never have been exposed for its possibly illegal activities had not an enterprising young duo gone to its offices with a hidden camera and recorded some ACORN workers who were happy to assist in breaking the law.
As one who appears on Fox as a contributor, I have seen the network grow from its beginning more than a decade ago to its current position of holding accountable those in power. That was once the calling of all journalists until the Kennedy years, when reporters started cheerleading and socializing with the people they were empowered to question and cover.
It is no mystery why the White House has made Fox News a target. If its reporting and commentary were not effective in exposing things the administration does not want the public to know, Fox would be ignored. But it is increasingly effective because the public is sensing that the administration has a lot to hide about its personnel, ideology and objectives.
Rather than boycott Fox, the administration should flood the network with its spokesmen. The administration apparently believes it needs an enemy to avert scrutiny from its socialist agenda. Because Republicans have no credible national leader, the administration has settled on Fox News.
Political leaders, going back to our nation's founding, have criticized the press. It never works, because after the politicians leave office, the press remains. If the administration is seeking approval for its policies, it should go on the only channel that will confront, examine and question those policies. If the policies are valid, they will stand; if not, they won't and they shouldn't.
But perhaps the administration would rather jam Fox's "signal" because it doesn't want the public to know the truth about what it is doing.
