Well yea, even more depressing is that the “media” have been trained like a bunch of seals balancing beach balls on their noses. The “pool” reports are now “edited” by the White House and also distributed, as a gratuity.
I am reading Sheryl Attkisson’s books “Stonewalled” and we are still in the “media has lost its mojo” part where she is essentially whining that the media has sold out lock, stock and barrel to not only their government masters but also the corporate side which pays the advertising fees. No criticism of pharmaceuticals, hospitals, bid bidness, government. Reporters soon learn that they will be ignored, left out, ?, if they do not play along. Their bosses tell them to not PO anyone, keep it light, happy, positive. no no no negative (bad, bad, bad).
Woodward is going around saying the same thing, “Why doesn’t someone DO something?”
Why doesn’t HE?
Sharyl is not particularly political. She is not a conservative or anything but a cypher. She just got shut down down investigating things (Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Autism from inoculations, etc.) and says everyone one else is feeling it (e.g. Lisa Myers NBC forced out)
Right now she is as generic,fair and balanced as one can get. Seemingly she owes nothing to no one. A great place to be. From what I have seen she still covers just the story and the basics of great journalism. So few of them come up to her ankles. If you looked at the panel segment with Hungry Howie today the other two gals on her panel really looked up to her and they should. She is a role model for all wanna be journalists.