Watching all the hoopla surrounding the "revelations" contained in McClellan's What Happened book from the sidelines, one has to wonder about the Washington DC-center US media. Many are exhibiting an astonishment about those revelations, some go as far as asking "should people look at everything coming out of the White House with a gain of salt?" (Anderson Cooper interviewing Scott McClellan).
Dah! That is your job, the media person! You must question everything anybody says to ensure that you are presenting the whole picture or risk being taken as an extension of the office providing you with the talking points. Is it not obvious that the essence of politics is to try to convince others in the correctness of your point of view and get them to support you in the efforts to implement your ides? I mean, that is politics 101. Every spokesperson is not only disseminating the facts but is definitely coloring them so that the public sees those facts through the politician's eyes.
Why now such an outcry at someone actually admitting what should have been known all along? Perhaps it is because Scott McClellan is stirring up trouble for the news media persons around DC (and elsewhere, I suppose) and causing some of them a discomfort for now having to work harder to get the whole picture, because we, the public, are now told that many things we are offered as news are really the spin.
Interesting times unless the messenger is killed because those affected did not like the message.
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