JUST ANOTHER WHITE GUY:

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The press finally falls out of love with Obama. (Howard Fineman, Mar 12, 2010, NEWSWEEK)

Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, was 50 minutes late for his briefing, apparently a record for tardiness, but few reporters in the White House press room bothered to feign outrage; they didn't seem all that eager to ask him questions anyway. When his boss flew to Missouri to give another of his "high octane" (The New York Times), "impassioned" (The Washington Post) health-care speeches, no cable channel covered the event. If you are president, the only thing worse than criticism is not being covered. And the truth is, we in the press are bored with Barack.

The "mainstream media" are losing patience with, and even interest in, their erstwhile hero.

There's too little depth to the man to keep anyone's interest.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 15, 2010 6:24 PM