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and there's more, like this doozy...

"A year ago, in May 2003, Dana Milbank, the White House correspondent for The Washington Post, complained that the press had lost its misanthropic edge in a time when it needed it most. He told an audience at Yale, his alma mater, that "about 40 percent of the Washington Post newsroom … is now taking some form of antidepressant." He called it the "Prozac Newsroom."

Now Mr. Milbank said that "a lot of our trade has lost some of its rough edge," but was waking from a long slumber. And, he said, there was at least one maverick left: "David Gregory, who will shout out a question."

Mr. Gregory, the NBC White House correspondent, declined to comment.

Helen Thomas, the former U.P.I. correspondent who is the dowager among all White House curmudgeons—and who last year called President Bush the worst President in American history—agreed with Mr. Milbank. She said the press had become "much more intellectual" since she started in 1961. "I think they’re better educated," she said. "A lot more finesse—but I don’t think they’re better reporters." But she also said of the April 13 press conference, "Well, now they’re coming out of their coma, they’re getting much tougher. I thought they did a good job at the news conference. I don’t know what has made them wake up, but I think they’re better now than they were."

"Now Mr. Milbank said that "a lot of our trade has lost some of its rough edge," but was waking from a long slumber. And, he said, there was at least one maverick left: "David Gregory, who will shout out a question."

Check out the two names above. Milbank, on MSNBC this morning, ran with the "Why is GWB meeting the 9/11 commission with Cheney" talking point...refusing to ask why President Clinton met the 9/11 commission with Sandy Berger...in order to give the false appearance that it was somehow unusual for President Bush to meet with the 9/11 commission with allies in tow.

Gregory, back when President Bush transited through France on his way to sign the LARGEST NUCLEAR REDUCTION TREATY IN WORLD HISTORY, failed to ask either Chirac or President Bush why the French *anti-nuclear* protestors were out protesting GWB in France. Instead, he spoke in French first, then switched to English to ask why the French hated GWB.

Anti-nuclear protesters...protesting the signing of the largest nuclear reduction in world history...and the reporters on the scene couldn't even comprehend the magnitude of the story that they missed.