[sarasmom]

But chose not to tell us-is IMHO, the operative phrase.
They are obviously no longer reporters,journalists, the press etc.
They are information manipulators.
Now I have no particular problem with information management,the old term.
The major difference is the information I manipulated was was strictly controlled, and any attempt on my part to play games with it in order to slant it to provoke a desired outcome had built in checks and balances, and the penalty for obvious ethical lapses in dealing with it were rather severe.
The "professional media" has no such ethical or legal restraints anymore.
They have, as a group, lost their once widely assumed to be deserving of respect position as professional watchers of the power players.
Professional reporters must either re-embrace their roots, or become irrelevant.
I think it is fairly obvious they will, as a group, choose the latter course.

[woodyinscc]

I think it is fairly obvious they will, as a group, choose the latter course.

You are right, like the libs, the press will never put the blame where it belongs, with themselves.! Just to get a high profile job, the code words have to be ask, and answered.