Dunn says she wasn't 'going rogue' in attacks on Fox

A senior White House aide hinted she wasn't "going rogue" in launching the Obama administration's offensive against Fox News.

Outgoing White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, who has been credited with stirring up the feud between the Obama White House and Fox, defended the administration's views toward Fox.

"I'm not exactly one known for going rogue, to use a popular phrase these days," she said when asked if the Fox fight was coordinated with senior administration officials, such as Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

"The reality is that the media environment in this country has changed so dramatically over the last decade," she explained during Bloomberg News's summit in Washington this week, broadcast on "Political Capital with Al Hunt" this weekend. "What we traditionally think of as news organizations, or what traditionally are news organizations have changed so much."

The months-long feud between Fox and the Obama White House appears to have come to a truce in recent weeks, as administration officials have begun appearing again on Fox shows after meetings between the administration and Fox executives.

Dunn, who will leave the White House by the end of the month to be replaced by Dan Pfeiffer, pointed to Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" having revealed inaccuracies in a report by conservative anchor Sean Hannity as an example of a rightward bias at Fox.

"We're under no illusions about what the political agenda of certain news networks are," said Dunn, who denied a similar but left-leaning bias in the cable network MSNBC.

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