The "Journalist" are whining that the White House isn't spoon feeding them news....

[WCGreen]

Well Boo Fucking Hoo.

I guess they should actually go out and commit journalism by investigating, developing sources and not wait by the phone to hear when they can shout at the president again.

Ever since TV took over the game, the idea of reporting is just regurgitating what the news makers say.

[Dreamer Tatum]

1. Actually, that's what they're complaining about precisely

that they are being spoon fed.

And they have a point - the WH is controlling access to POTUS. When the Bush admin did it, it was bad. Why is it OK now?

[WCGreen]

2. Woodward and Bernstein weren't granted access...

The point is the Beltway has become not about news but what is essentially gossip with event coverage thrown in just to make it look relevant. There is no depth anywhere on TV outside of Front line.

They are spoon fed because they want to be spoon feed. They bask in the shining light that is the administration and then pout when we don't take them seriously.

Journalism is more than just talking over a guest on a talk show.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Damn right!

[monmouth3]

4. The medias' main concern right now is whether POTUS beat Tiger in golf....n/t

[GentryDixon]

7. Amen to that.

Your last sentence is pure gold.

We have few real journalists left, sadly.

[AlinPA]

9. They are pissed because they couldn't watch a round of golf and be present at a private event.

[Dreamer Tatum]

10. If you read the article it is deeper than that nt

[AlinPA]

12. I read a few articles (Ed Henry being at the center of them) and it still looks to me like a lot of

TV idiots wanting to know trivia about a golf game and to get some "photo ops". it was a chance for the jerk Henry to complain about "access".

[hedgehog]

5. Most broadcast journalists at all levels seemingly are unfamilar with

basic concepts of logic, science, economics, history, math and lack short term memory. That aside, they tend to have nice hair, shiny white teeth and smart clothes.

[Uncle Joe]

6. T.V. turned most journalists in to courtesans.

Thanks for the thread, WCGreen.

[AlinPA]

8. "Journalists"? Most are TV idiots, starting with Ed Henry.

[pinboy3niner]

11. But the President wasn't transparent about golfing!1!!

[KamaAina]

13. The incomparable Charles P. Pierce: Things In Politico That Make Me Want To Guzzle Antifreeze

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/In_Which_Politico_Complains_About_Its_Work

Every sportswriter learns one simple rule in a very quick hurry — namely, that nobody out in your readership cares how hard you think your job is. People, to paraphrase Michael J. Fox's channelling of the Stephanoplouli in The American President, don't give a damn about your problems, they give a damn about their own. Therefore, columns about media shuttles being late, or cold food in the press room, or the quality of the bath towels in the headquarters hotels become the object of swift and righteous ridicule on the part of the people who read them. This is a lesson apparently lost on the elite political press, and especially on the presiding geniuses behind Tiger Beat On The Potomac. But, first, here's Mike McCurry being completely silly....

The grammar in that second sentence went briefly to the zoo, but I think they're saying that the White House has more technology and that the media companies have fewer resources. (Something with which TBOTP has had some recent experience, and one might also mention that "media companies" often are struck stupid by cowardice when confronted by candidates who don't even win. This also contributes to the aforementioned imbalance of power. We continue.) And this is a surprise to approximately nobody who's watched as the clowns who run America's newspapers cratered the industry over the past 20 years. If these guys are really making the case that "do more with less" doesn't work, let them start with overseas bureaus, and not the various loungers in the White House press corps....

It is not — repeat, not — the president's fault that major media corporations are run by bean-counting morons. (It is his fault that he hasn't done more on the issue of media consolidation, but that's not what the PG's are going on about here.) Of course the White House will exploit this fact to its own advantage. The White House is a political operation. That's what those things do....

Everybody sing! "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things is not the same." No, stop, seriously, you're killing me, fellas. Yeah, the president is hiding under the bed because he's afraid one of your tyros is going to get all up in his grill with a stone-killer "Some people say you're an uppity schmuck" kind of question. A lecture about how the White House catapults propaganda from the home office of the "Some Republican strategists say..." school of anonymous political slander? A seminar in the propagation of bullshit from the the country's largest gossip silo? How in the hell do the people at the Times, the Post, and the WSJ feel about your lumping yourself in there with them? Who the fck are you when you're at home?

"Tiger Beat on the Potomac"!!!

[FSogol]

14. They don't seem to have a problem reporting the GOP talking points verbatim as news.

[lpbk2713]

16. Murrow and Cronkite would lament what passes for journalism in 2013.

I'm sure they would be ashamed how their profession has declined.