[PapaBear3625]

The WaPo is in a hard position. Their left-leaning is what gives them access to the Obama administration and Dem politicians, and thus their sources for their stories.

If the WaPo suddenly started doing things like covering Benghazi and Fast&Furious, Obama would shut off their access, and Holder and the NSA would work at making sure nobody talked to them.

[JennysCool]

Their left-leaning is what gives them access to the Obama administration and Dem politicians

By 2015, those may not exist.

[Hostage]

This is true. My brother-in-law was just a few years ago a member of the White House Press Corp. It’s all about access.

But you know what? That’s where real investigative journalism comes in. Woodward and Bernstein went house to house, door to door, phone call after phone call to follow a trail of clues and facts.

But today reporters catch a plane, talk to one or two sources and write the story on the return flight. There’s not much budget for in-depth investigation. Most reporting is garbage because the access is biased to begin with.