The Media's Job

Bash the President. Correction: Bash Bush.

Newsbusters has it from the horses mouth, or Newsweek's other orifice if you like.

Evan Thomas: "Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do almost --"

Why this important role? Since I went to J-school at Syracuse in 1980 it's been taught that a role of the media is to be an adversary to the government. That adversary role seems to only apply when there's an R in the White House.

Thomas has a "reason" for the current case of the media's Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Thomas: "Mmmm -- I think when he rebuffed, I think when he just kissed off the Iraq Study Group, the Baker-Hamilton Commission, there was a sense then that he was decoupling himself from public opinion and Congress and the mainstream media, going his own way. At that moment he lost whatever support he had."

So, when the President does his job and ignores bad advice he put himself at odds with the mainstream media.