I think we're confusing journalists and talk show hosts.
They are not the same.
BTW... Paul Begala and James Carville have been doing this kind of thing for years. It's their job for crying out loud.
We need to out all the Journalists who are on the Feds pay roll and hopefully charge them and the government officials who authorized the payments with a crime.AMEN! I've been living and working in Mexico for several years now, where the party in control of the Executive and Legislative branches used to regularly keep journalists on their payroll... and Mexico was seen as having a censored press as a result. That mess has been cleaned up (political parties have to account for their spending) but this just feeds into the international view that the U.S. is becoming more corrupt under one party control.