Evan Thomas (a man not known to discount the value of his profession) discusses some of the stresses between the reporters and the candidates, and chances upon an interesting point:

Former presidential adviser Dick Morris…tells Newsweek the Clintons talked about why they were getting such bad press, and Hillary speculated that certain journalists were jealous of the Clintons’ success. “They are all our age,” said Hillary, according to Morris. President Clinton zeroed in on Howell Raines, an Alabama native and New York Times editorial page editor who was roasting the president daily. “He had to leave the South to make good and I never had to”….Obama appeals to the young millennial-generation reporters who fill the seats on press planes, just as Bill Clinton struck a chord with baby boomers 16 years ago.

So, Thomas seems to say, the press apparently falls into a kind of generational boosterism that morphs into some kind of sibling rivalry if their candidate and ideological fellow traveler wins. We’ll have to see what happens to Barack Obama. His press has been awfully good for a long time — since even before he became a Senator.

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