Does this concern anyone else? - Granite Grok

Does this concern anyone else?

Ann ComptonOver at Big Journalism was this headline:

WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN PRAISES ABC’S ANN COMPTON: ‘SHE IS EAGER TO SEE THE WHITE HOUSE SUCCEED’

Josh Earnest, President Obama’s Press Secretary said this upon the retirement of Ann Compton as part of the White House Press corps:

“What’s distinguishing about her is this inner spirit in which she is eager to see the White House succeed, and she does not view that as being at odds with her commitment to holding the administration accountable and insisting on transparency and access and telling the story about what is happening to the American people…She is able to better the way that she sort of wishes for and aspires to the success of this institution that is the White House, and that is a really classy thing. That’s the kind of thing you don’t learn by working every two or years, that’s the kind of thing you cultivate after years and years of experience,”

“Let’s be clear” (heh!) – when Earnest says “White House”, he’s talking about either The State or President Obama (or both).  Yet, the purpose of the Press was to act as a brake on The State, flashing the Big Flashlights into its deep dark corners – an adversarial relationship at its best and an objective relationship at its worst.  Neither of those encompass an attitude of “success eagerness” for that shows a predisposition of success of Government over that of those any journalist IS supposed to represent – the People. 

On an individual basis, I have no problem with someone wanting success for anything or anyone.  The problem is that poll after poll, study after study, shows that newsroom journalist are quite Left leaning; preferring a collectivist outlook over that of the conservative’s individual outlook.  So when Earnest praises a journalist’s “eager” for Government to succeed, it says to me (a witchy type of voice from Oz) “Come to me, my pretty!”.

Objectivism?  Not so much

 

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