I have spent a lot of time in the briefing room, and I can tell you that the reporters I met were mostly maggots. BIG maggots. Leslie Stahl, Andrea Mitchell(who ,by the way, possesses and enormous head), Helen Thomas, Sam Donaldson, etc. They're all very, very strange people and they also feel very, very entitled.
No doubt, all of the aforementioned people must be heroes to scumbums like David Gregory.
When President Reagan had his press conferences in the East Room, I used to smile with irony as I watched early arrivals for the conference switch the names on chairs in order to get closer to the president.
The White House Press Corps: Poorly dressed, rude children.
But the press has always been hated in America. That will never change. It's the job of the press to be hated, I reckon. Well, speaking as a soul who used to be one, I can tell you this: They are quite awful and they relish that role.
Anytime this adminstration circumvents the WH press pool there is an outside chance the the actual story will get out. I like that. I think McClellen should hold his next presser from the conference room of the Lubbock Avalanche with 15 minutes notice. ;o)
Maybe the press in America has always been hated, I can't really say. I can say for certain however that it's only been over the past 60 years that our media has sought solace in the arms of our enemies.