WHITE HOUSE - FOX WON'T AIR OBAMA'S PRIMETIME NEWS CONFERENCE

FOX WON'T AIR OBAMA'S PRIMETIME NEWS CONFERENCE

Fox Broadcasting has refused a request from the White House to provide an hour in primetime on Wednesday for a news conference in which President Obama plans to discuss his first 100 days in office. Instead, the network, whose sibling cable channel's commentators are some of Obama's fiercest critics, plans to air an episode of its drama Lie to Me , whose title will almost certainly add to the flap over the network's decision. The three other major networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, said they will carry the press conference -- as will Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.

28/04/2009