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This piece in the New York Press is a fairly scathing attack on the White House press corps’s docility in the face of the Bush administration’s strong-arm demands of positive coverage. An excerpt:

Reporters argue that they have no choice. They’ll say they can’t protest or boycott the staged format, because they risk being stripped of their seat in the press pool. For the same reason, they say they can’t write anything too negative. They can’t write, for instance, “President Bush, looking like a demented retard on the eve of war…” That leaves them with the sole option of “working within the system” and, as they like to say, “trying to take our shots when we can.”