Obama and the Media - Isn’t It Ironic? - NYTimes.com

This is Maureen Dowd?

Op-Ed Columnist - Obama and the Media - Isn’t It Ironic? - NYTimes.com: "he former constitutional lawyer now in the White House understands that the press has a role in the democracy. But he is an elitist, too, as well as thin-skinned and controlling. So he ends up regarding scribes as intrusive, conveying a distaste for what he sees as the fundamental unseriousness of a press driven by blog-around-the-clock deadlines.

The 21st-century press beast is a scary multimedia monster, caught up in the trite as well as the vital, and reporters rarely can be as contemplative as the cerebral Obama would like."