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Boehlert: The Press Hits the Rewind Button

By Jeralyn

Eric Boehlert at Media Matters on the shameful press reaction to the release of Hillary Clinton's white house schedules:

How dreadful was the news coverage last week surrounding the official release of Hillary Clinton's public White House schedule from her eight years as first lady? So bad that I found myself in rare (unprecedented?) agreement with at least two prominent conservative bloggers who noticed the same thing I did: The Beltway press corps is, at times, a national embarrassment.

...Surveying the news coverage, conservative blogger Rick Moran posed the same question I had last week, "Do we really need to know where Hillary was when Monica Lewinsky was with her husband? Or where she was when Vince Foster committed suicide? ... And does it deserve this feeding frenzy from the media?"

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Good for Boehlert. After naming the most egregious violators, he concludes:

The release of Clinton's White House schedules hit the rewind button in lots of newsrooms last week as reporters jumped at the chance to revisit the good ole days..... The political press corps, in terms of standards and professionalism, is probably in worse shape today than it was 10 years ago.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 25, 2008 (boomark / email).