CBS’s Mark Knoller is the one of the journalists in DC who uses Twitter more effectively than maybe any other. And by effectively I mean usefully, as in to a productive journalistic purpose, not just as some sort of social media strategy. Bringing the whole idea of a White House reporter significantly into the 21st century. But over the last few months I’ve noticed a slowly increasing, more acid tone towards the President, verging into hostility. Perhaps that’s not surprising: the attitudes of the White House press corps are always one of the key barometers of how a president is doing.
But then I noticed his piece last night on the Obama debt record which read almost like a Republican press release. So I was interested to see this morning that our Brian Beutler had written a run-down of all the questionable reasoning, data and special pleading included in the piece. Take a look.
