NEW YORK — If the battle between Fox News Channel and the Obama administration is still going on, it has moved behind closed doors.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was saying little yesterday about his meeting this week with Fox News executive Michael Clemente. Asked whether the tiff was over, Gibbs said, "I have nothing to add to that."

The White House meeting on Oct. 28, first disclosed by the Web site FishbowlDC and confirmed by Gibbs' aide Bill Burton, comes after the administration said publicly that the network operated more like a wing of the Republican Party than a news organization.

Fox was also saying little about the meeting. When asked in an e-mail to comment, a Fox spokeswoman, Irena Briganti, referred to the Web site Politico.com, which reported the meeting had happened.

CNN prime-time host Campbell Brown was an unlikely source of support for Fox News in her prime-time show on Oct. 28. She interviewed Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and asked whether the White House considered left-leaning MSNBC biased as well. Jarrett wouldn't discuss the network.

She "seems loath to admit that MSNBC has a bias," Brown said. "And that is where I think the White House loses all credibility on this issue."

If the White House wants to talk about bias in the news media, officials "should elevate the conversation and talk about bias on the right and on the left," Brown said. "Because when you just target one side, you reveal your own bias — that you are only critical of those who are critical of you."

Brown, in turn, earned a tip of the cap from Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly, who said her questions were excellent.