Journalists: Public Enemy Number 1
Frank Rich writes today about Laura Bush, MSM, bloggers and the Runaway Bride. He begins,
AS we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Drudge Report and the second anniversary of the Jayson Blair scandal, American journalists are in a race with the runaway bride for public enemy No. 1. Newspaper circulation is on the skids, the big three network anchor thrones are as precarious as King Lear's, bloggers are on the rampage, and the government is embracing fake reporters and threatening to jail real ones. A Pew Research Center poll shows that Americans now trust the press less than every other major institution, from government to medicine to banks. We can only be grateful that the matchups didn't include pornographers or Major League Baseball.
Then - just when you think things couldn't get any worse - along comes the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
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