Will Richardson has this article about how the press corps allowed themselves to become the public relationship department for the White House. Here’s a quote from Rick McArthur, the publisher of Harper’s, who states:

The remarkable thing about it is the press – the White House press corps anyway, has now turned into…has turned to full time press agency for the President of the United States. The proper thing to do in this case is to refuse the secrecy agreement and say we’re not going to be participants in a photo opportunity, which is merely done to help your re-election campaign, and if that aborts the trip, well, it aborts the trip.

Required reading on a day when Beacon showed Wag the Dog and had someone from FAIR lead a discussion on it afterwards.

Someone remind the press about that silly little idea about "The Fourth Estate" and all… please?