Eric Boehlert: White House reporters push back -- just in time for Biden

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cutthroat competition among reporters, wanting to out sensationalize one another and maybe even get to be a cable news contributor. In the midst of the rat race, many of them may lose their perspective. Meanwhile, the real stars are often those investigative reporters, who do the hard work and break history making stories, in the tradition of Bernstein and Woodward. Fortunately, many of those still exist and have really contributed more to our democracy than many people realize.

You know, it is great to have reporters out there looking for corruption and maleficence, but it is journalistic malpractice to create such stories. That's why the lazy and inept often end up at Fox News.