Whinny Press

The Whitehouse press corps is whining again about the way they are treated -- claiming they get no respect -- respect they believe they deserve. The reasons given fall at the feet of the American people, the President and Vice President, and the news stories themselves. I have another opinion -- the 'fault' rest soley on them, the reporters, with an assist from the fact that we (the American people) luckily need not depend soley on them for information.

Mr. McCurry saw the same dynamic.
'The public hates the people in that
room,' he said.
[...]
David Gregory, the NBC correspondent who has been among the most ardent questioners in the briefing room, apologized for yelling at Mr. McClellan over the Cheney incident but said the situation had become particularly frustrating.

"There is a desire by some, particularly on the right, to morph these situations into a different kind of debate — it's the vice president against an angry, left-wing, cynical, hate-filled press corps that wants to expose him as a liar," he said. "This is a false debate, stoked by a president and vice president who have made no bones about the fact that they don't have much respect for the press corps as an institution."

Oh "boo-hoo"!

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