In anticipation of the new administration, Beltway media insiders are busy laying the groundwork for how reporters and pundits will treat the new team on Pennsylvania Avenue.The thing that makes Boehlert great is that he manages to get through the entire rest of the piece debunking that CW without ever saying: "HA HA HA HA HA, no stop, really, you're killing me, HA HA HA HA HA, oh my aching sides, HA HA HA HA HA, no seriously, shut the fuck up, you mendacious wankers."
"Once a president takes office ... an adversarial relationship usually flourishes, at least with beat reporters," wrote Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post. And former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, discussing the press corps on Fox News, agreed: "They are inevitably going to turn on him, as all -- this happened to every administration. I don't see why we should be surprised. It is the natural turn of events."
The conventional wisdom is quite clear: The press always turns skeptical and becomes combative when new presidents come to town.
Fair and Balanced
Eric Boehlert's got a great new piece about the media's double standard in its coverage of new presidents:
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