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Falling down on the job

Tuesday, 2nd December 2008

Joe Klein wasn't impressed by the journalists' contribution to Obama's latest news conference:

I was struck by the inanity of most of the questions from my colleagues. Granted, these are political reporters, not national security or foreign policy specialists, but what sort of journalist expects the President-elect to tell the "inside story" of how he selected Hillary Clinton?
Among the questions he'd have asked instead: "Are you still going to call it the Global War on Terror?"

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