I finally got around to watching Journeys with George last night, and I admit that I audibly gasped when Alexandra Pelosi said something along the lines of "[t]hat's the dirty little secret of journalism — when you’re the reporter covering the campaign, if he wins, you’re the White House press corps." This I did not know. Now I'm thinking this means that the same group of journalists, reporters, and producers that spend a year or more working as an adjunct unit of the candidate's campaign, largely crafting out of whole cloth the public picture of that man or woman, are the same group of folks we're counting on to doggedly and deeply interrogate that candidate as president, should, of course, he or she somehow manage to get elected to that job. Interesting.
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