“If you don’t mind a little constructive criticism from someone who respects you, I think that is an impression the press should work on correcting,” he said.
I hope he wasn’t including Pajamas Media in this because I am not opening up my desk drawer. [Thank God for that.-ed. Who gave you the key?]
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“…it is easy to believe that the press has one set of standards for government, business, and other institutions, and entirely another for themselves,”…
I think there is a simple explanation for that belief: they do!
This “bitter” business with Obama is telling us much about the media too, not just about Obama.
Remember that the event was “off-limits to the media”, and the actual recording was made by a sympathic attendee who wanted to share the “gospel” with her friends at HuffPo.
Thus we learned about what Obama says in private only through a “mistake”, for which her friends chewed her out by the way, and one that you can be sure the “professional” media would never have made.
Why are candidates even permitted to exclude the media from “campaign” activities anyway? Is the media so compliant with everyone, or just those it wants to elect? Why doen’t someone like McCain take a stand that all “campaign” functions must be open? Have your staff meetings in private, but if you are speaking to voters, how can you justify excluding their faithful watchdogs, the reporters?
Looks to me like either the media has abandoned it’s post guarding our sacred right to know that the tell us about unceasingly, or perhaps they tend to nod off when “their” candidate is speaking.