The role of the press

You'd think the campaign press would have learned a wee bit something from 2000 and 2004 -- that by playing favorites, they have, how shall we say, participated in the complete fuck up that is the Bush administration.

Apparently not.

There is a difference in the political reality: fairly or unfairly, a healthy chunk of the national political press corps doesn't like John Edwards.

Fairly or unfairly, there's also a difference in narrative timing: when the first quarter ended, the press was trying to bury Edwards. It's not so much interested in burying Romney right now -- many reporters think he's the Republican frontrunner.

Jaysus. Ambinder, writing in The Atlantic, and a former editor of ABC's The Note, sees this as a political reality, not a professional and ethical problem.

Citizens, we're fucked.

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