GOP getting too cozy with journalists

Preferential treatment for favored journalists is one thing...outright bribery is another.

If any other journalist (or more likely pundit and commentator) who had a personally held belief that happened to overlap with the Clinton White House's own beliefs were paid by the Clinton White House, with or without any sort of disclosure, there would have been such high indignant moral outrage from the GOP. Time to start owning up to a lot of internal inconsistencies and outright hypocracies: Williams should be professionally disgraced, and anyone who touched this at the White House or Department of Education should be sacked.

We need to trust the independent voices that tell us the government is doing the right thing. As smart media consumers we should be able to see through the sycophants and apologists, and take the governments own word skeptically, but in our kind of democracy, we shouldn't have to pick out the paid plants from supposed experts.