Republicans long accused journalists of being in the tank for Barack Obama, said Jim Rutenberg in The New York Times. Now “the accusation has a new twist”—several prominent reporters have taken jobs in the Obama administration. It’s not unprecedented for journalists to make such a switch, but the “unusual number” joining Obama’s team is bound to fuel the cries of favoritism.
You think? asked Jonah Goldberg in USA Today. Mainstream journalists have been “clapping on the inside” since Obama won the election. And like Franklin D. Roosevelt—another popular Democrat who followed an unpopular Republican—Obama can count on an “obsequious press corps” to make his job easier, and make his critics miserable.
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