I saw something similar to this in another thread earlier. The President's visit to Iraq really put the media in a bind. To wit, "How do we slam Bush for doing this without appearing to be a bunch of petty, vindictive jackasses?"
Looks like the old spin about "government hiding the truth is the real danger" spin is being selected as the tool of choice. While that maxim is true in many situations, making it apply to this is really a stretch.
This is going to backfire on the media big time. All they're doing is reinforcing the fact that as far as they're concerned, it's all about them. It takes an extreme level of navel gazing to be so removed from reality that you would think the public would actually buy into this line of BS the media is peddling.