Jay Rosen: "Would You Guys Like us to Come Without You?" - Off The Bus on The Huffington Post

ARE YOU ON THE BUS OR OFF THE BUS?
Journalists and their methods were overwhelmed by what the Bush White House did -- by its radicalism. There is simply nothing in the Beltway journalist's rule book about what to do, how to act, when a group of people comes to power willing to go as far as this group has in expanding executive power, eluding oversight, steamrolling critics (even when they are allies), politicizing the government, re-working the Constitution, rolling back the press, making secrecy and opacity standard operating procedure, and repealing the very principle of empiricism in matters of state.
(HUFFINGTON POST, unearthed by Media Bistro)