HANSON: The press and its Faustian deal
The liberal media are realizing the price of Obama adulation
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The Washington Times
In the old Dr. Faustus story, a young scholar bargains away his soul to the devil for promises of obtaining almost anything he wants.
The American media has done much the same thing with the Obama administration. In return for empowering a fellow liberal, the press gave up its traditional adversarial relationship with the president.
After five years of basking in a shared progressive agenda, though, the tab for such ecstasy has come due, and now the media is lamenting that it has lost its soul. . . . .
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/5/the-press-and-its-faustian-deal/#ixzz2YNH28loe
"For a press ... had torn apart George W. Bush over everything from the Iraq War to Hurricane Katrina"
Imagine criticizing two such stunning successes. Seriously, otherwise this column is very well done.
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