Print it, laminate it, and post this one on your refrigerator. From politico.com:
Why reporters are down on Obama
This classic media navel-gazing story is just as funny as the headline. Remember, these are the same folks who gave round-the-clock attention to any person who had ever passed Sarah Palin on the sidewalk, but failed to do anything more than cursory reporting on the candidate they were clearly hoping would win.
“Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me,” Obama joked last year at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
But even then, only four months into his presidency, the joke fell flat. Now, a year later, with another correspondents’ dinner Saturday night likely to generate the familiar criticism of the press’s cozy relationship with power, the reality is even more at odds with the public perception.
President Obama and the media actually have a surprisingly hostile relationship – as contentious on a day-to-day basis as any between press and president in the last decade, reporters who cover the White House say.
Look, I don’t doubt they’re frustrated and I don’t doubt they’ve got legitimate complaints. I find Mr. Gibbs’ attitude at press briefings to be arrogant and dismissive. But rather than complaining about the administration, how about some aggressive reporting on the impact of this administration’s policies? Not politics and personality — but policies.
