White House has eased the journalistic burden by putting out its own stories

WHBS–White House Broadcasting Service

By Lance Thompson
Monday, May 17, 2010

In its never-ending campaign to simplify the main stream media’s job, the White House has eased the journalistic burden by putting out its own stories. Besides White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs breaking news on Twitter and Barack Obama taking a question at a news conference from a sympathetic blogger, the White House has now produced and released its own interview with its recent Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan.

Now journalists won’t have to go to all the trouble to research Kagan’s body of written work (perusing it wouldn’t even fill the duration of a commuter flight from Washington, D. C. to Baltimore), or investigating her one decisive action (keeping the military off of the Harvard campus because of the Clinton administration’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tellâ€