“You have to look at who these people are.”

Good grief, that really is pathetic. This Chicago Trib guy, James O’Shea, sounds like an ageing ancien regime royalist, suspicious of the press, yet failing to see the irony. This is not anarchy, it’s fact checking, plain and simple. And it’s precisely the plain and simple quality here that causes these ancien regime guys to retreat into platitudes, poorly founded suspicions and even a kind of paranoia. His views and reality don’t match up, hence it’s reality that must be at fault.

It isn’t true that these MSM “emperors” have no clothes; they’re wearing clown suits with brightly colored noses that honk when squeezed, yet are busy convincing themselves of their sartorial splendor. The self-parody and self-mockery continues.