Revolt of the Press Corps

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By Dan Froomkin

The press corps appears to have had about enough of those hokey "Ask President Bush" events.

Instead of taking questions from reporters, President Bush has become increasingly partial to playing talk-show host to an audience of sycophantic fans.

There were four "Ask President Bush" events last week and in each case, after a long speech and staged interviews with prepped guests, Bush opened the floor to some incredible softballs.

The format allows the president to come off as very smooth.

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Revcolt of the Press Corps

[DenverDem]

1. The press are revolting!

Yeah, they stink on ice!

[napi21]

2. they are, but very little and very late!

I have seen several reporters at shrubs last press briefing challenge his positions, and he failed miserably with his responses. I have a weird feeling that the press is going to become more agitated as time goes on and shrubs poll numbers fall.

I hope they do! I hated the way they played attack dogs on Clinton, and I'm still not excusing their actions, but they swung to the complete opposite side with shrub, and that's not right either.

Their job is to dig and prod, and ask the right questions to get decent answers.

I do believe they are moving in that direction, all though very slowly.I'm looking for rapid improvement in the next few weeks.

[amber dog democrat]

3. like a pack of jackals/hyenas

they will turn on him once the bandwagon falls apart.
And it won't be pretty to see.
The press are pretty good to have around when things are going right for their corporate masters.