Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press: WTF?

So, The Press had it's feelings hurt last week when CNN, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Time, Politico and others were excluded from a gaggle in Sean Spicer's office at the White House.  Never mind the pool representatives, the "big three" broadcast networks and others were included; the Real News outlets didn't get to go on the date, while others they derided as being something less than legitimate journalistic endeavors were allowed in.

Mainstream media needs to be a bit careful there.  Deriding their "lessers" in such a manner dangerously close to defining those competitors as "fake news".  Is it really safe to go there?

While they were busy bawling their eyes out over this existential threat to the First Amendment (even though it isn't), a much more disturbing comment was made by a MSNBC anchor.  Despite the fact this comment directly assaults the credibility of a free press, the majority of the Mediacracy who define themselves as the Guardians of Democracy ignored it as though they were farting in church after covering the baked bean festival and desperately praying no one would notice or at the very least not trace it back to them.

Mika Brezezinski cut loose with the ultimate That Which Must Not Ever Be Uttered truth bomb as far as the press is concerned: "[Trump] is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job,"

The general silence from the mainstream media was deafening, and speaks volumes. That which you refuse to condemn, you tacitly condone.

The less than divine Ms. B later compounded her error by claiming not to have said what any casual listener to the videotape can clearly hear her say.  Criticizing the promulgation of false facts by making up false facts is far from a winning tactic.  

No child, when caught with his arm elbow-deep in the cookie jar, has ever been successful at convincing Mom that he doesn't even know where the cookie jar is.  Or what cookies are.