Everybody Who Thinks the New York Times Should Fire Sheryl Gay Stolberg Immediately, Please Raise Your Hand...
Sheryl Gay Stolberg takes home--what? $40 an hour?--from the New York Times--for covering the White House. She wants to take--what? two hours?--out her day today, two hours that she could sped reading documents or interviewing sources or writing drafts, to gossip with her friends and watch George W. Bush cut a ribbon:
An Ebbing of Coverage With ’08 on the Horizon: Mr. Bush intends... Wednesday... [to cut] the ribbon for the renovated White House briefing room.... Wednesday’s ribbon-cutting is unlikely to merit front-page treatment, but it will bring the press corps, which has been operating in temporary quarters on Lafayette Square, back into the White House proper.... Mr. Snow said the president would not take questions...
But she is scared to go:
[W]ith the White House press corps under attack from liberal bloggers as being too cozy with the Bush administration, some reporters say they feel a little bit queasy about attending... [it is] a quandary for journalists uneasy about being seen with [Bush] at a purely ceremonial affair...
It speaks volumes that she is scared to go not because it is a waste of time she could spend doing her job, but because she is scared of liberal webloggers.
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?
