The worst enemy of the media? The media

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The worst enemy of the media? The media
By Bruce McQuain

They can’t seem to get out of their own way. We pointed out that after last week’s presser in which Trump called them everything but journalists, the AP set out to prove him right in every way by going with it’s false “National Guard” story and refusing to back away from it.

It is fascinating to see a narcissistic industry focus on a narcissistic president in a negative way (as opposed to a narcissistic industry focus on a president in a positive way – like they did with Obama). It’s simply the other side of the coin.  The difference is while they were willing, for the most part, to tolerate it in the Obama era, they’re adamantly against it in the Trump era and are busily trying to rewrite history by declaring his action’s “unprecedented”.

But is it?

http://www.qando.net/2017/02/20/the-worst-enemy-of-the-media-the-media/

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White House Correspondents' Association - History

http://www.whca.net/history.htm

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Legend has it that reporters first took up a daily beat inside the White House one frigid day in the early 1900s, after President Theodore Roosevelt noticed a band of correspondents staking out sources in the rain. The president "looked out and took pity,"

Should have left them outside.  Never let cockaroaches inside.  Once they are in, it's hell exterminating them.   Like Madonna once said, "I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me."