Chris Wallace

The old adage that goes "never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel" could probably be updated to "never pick a fight with Rupert Murdoch." And Barack Obama might have violated that one.

On April 21, Obama held what was supposed to be a conversation about economic policy with concerned Pennsylvania voters, seated around him on benches under a low hanging tree blooming with yellow flowers.

The first question was off message. It was about media consolidation, by Murdoch and others. "What can be done to ensure that our press is really giving a free, all-point-of-view [perspective] to the population," asked the questioner.

Obama called it a good question and then, referring to the television cameras, national and local media reporters ringing his quaint afternoon conversation, said, "I think the press would argue that there are a multiplicity of voices out there, but you're absolutely right that there has been a lot of media consolidation and that's happened partly because it's so expensive to set up big TV networks."  read more »

"I think it'll be the kind of interview we do on Fox News Sunday: tough, probing but fair," said Chris Wallace.

Mr. Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday, was speaking to Media Mob on Thursday afternoon, about having just landed a major interview that had long eluded him: a one-on-one sit-down with Senator Barack Obama.

This Saturday, April 26, Mr. Wallace will be in Indiana, where he will interview Mr. Obama at length. The interview will air the following morning on Fox News Sunday.

"We certainly aren't interested in a food fight," he added.  read more »

On the morning of Friday, March 21, Chris Wallace woke up at his home in Washington, D.C., grabbed some fruit and yogurt, and turned on the Fox News early show, Fox & Friends.  read more »