I love this CBS News article about president-elect Barack Obama already bristling under the constant attention of the media, weeks before he's in office. What I love most of it is it's totally non-ironic mention of Obama ordering a tuna melt on 12-grain bread in the middle of it, pointing out the very fact that is bothering the president-elect: who gives a crap about what he had for lunch? I'm shocked--shocked, I dare say--that the reporter didn't go on to mention whether or not he had a pickle and chips on the side and what brands they were.
I don't think the White House press corps needs to record every thought, utterance, or bowel movement the new prez has while he's in office. While I would prefer to know more things about the president than I would, say, Madonna shagging A-Rod, or Lindsay Lohan's alleged rug-munching with her adrogenyous-looking BFF, I think the media needs a major time-out. And I firmly believe the world would be a better place if the media kept bankers' hours, say from 9am to 5pm (with a nice hour-long lunch from 12-1), and went home and got a good night's sleep each night.
I'm hoping Obama is the president who leaves the bozos on the bus for once. Bush and Cheney certainly had their secrets, I'm certain Obama and company will, too. But this article points out the one constant fact in the media's reporting on itself: whoever is doing the reporting is never guilty of the sins of the rest of the reporters. "Oh no, not me," said the CBS reporter, as he asked the newly-minted president "mustard or mayonnaise?"
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