"As criticism of the president has escalated, the Administration has at times seemed affronted by the impertinence and the haste of coverage. This White House does expect a fairly deferential press."
This was taken from the first full paragraph in the third column on the first page. The first sentence from this piece comes from Auletta himself. He is basically saying that since the president has been in the media's eye, the amount of disrespect has increased rapidly. The second sentence from this piece comes from Jonathan Weisman, the Wall Street Journlal's White House correspondent. He is saying that this new Obama administration expects respectful coverage in the media.
From what I have been able to compare between President Bush's administration and President Obama's, I have seen that Bush definitely received a great deal more disrespect throughout most media coverage during his time than Obama has. Although this is true, Obama hasn't even been in house for too long. Almost two years now compared to Bush's eight. So I think the Obama administration will see it's own fair share of disrespect in the coming time.
I can totally agree with what you are saying here. Seeing that any president will get his own share of disrespect will be affected with how much coverage he gets. Like it says in the essay how Obama was the one to get the most coverage with his campaign before he was elected; some of that attention has changed into disrespect. Looking forward I can see this disrespect to grow because of his inability to do what he has promised to do even though it will take years and years to fix all the problems in the US; it won’t happen overnight. As people start to see this, there will defiantly be more disrespect and all the administration will want is to see respect for the president in the media. The ratio between disrespect and respect will be in favor of disrespect and that is what the administration needs to realize. It’s what Bush when through, now its Obamas turn to get hit with some negativity.
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