Well, first off, let me point out that this is a Washington Post STAFF WRITER posting this up. Washington Post... staff writer.. Washington Post... Washington Post is not one of the nations largest media organizations, is it? So they couldn't possibly send more people to cover him, couldn't they?
Well, wait..
The cost of covering the president has risen dramatically at a time when the news media, anxious about economic pressures, are aggressively cutting costs. For a one-day trip to St. Louis, for instance, the White House billed The Washington Post $3,317. To go to Yuma, Ariz., for a day, the bill came to $3,795. A two-day trip to Europe cost $8,283, not counting hotel charges.
Well.. OH. Dear. It costs more money. Oh, well, that explains everything. Maybe WP is asking us to start buying more newspapers so they can continue feeding us useless information generated by all that scrutiny.I seem to recall a day on Feb. 15 2003 when millions of people the globe over stood up and said "hey Bush, hey press, going to war is NOT a good idea!" Condi told us that we couldn't take chances because the consquences could be a mushroom cloud ... and the press scrutinized the pres. so well 3 years later we're still in a war and not a mushroom in sight.
Let us not mention the fact that we do not have to have a lot of brains to be able to put two and two together on the 'closed door' fundraising event. Let me guess, ummm, big business is going to woo Junior some more? Junior will accept their offers at the expense of the commonweal? :shock: The press didn't get the point after Bush called the wealthy "his base." why should they be of any help now?
I'd like to tell the WP that it's probably alright if they saved their money, since, you, know, they wouldn't actually be doing to justify the expense anyway.
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