Media hobnobs with "better than average" people at State dinner

Yes, you read that right. Brian Williams looks around the dinner and calls the other media personnel and Democrats surrounding him "better than average people." Hm. One wonders how objective these media personnel are when it comes to reporting on the glitterati surrounding them. Will they dig for the truth? Will they cover ClimateGate? Will they play the heart strings for the Navy Seals who are undergoing courts martial for allegedly giving a fat lip to a terrorist? Read at News Busters.

Needless to say, Williams doesn't always feel this dazzled in front of presidents. He pushed George W. Bush around with the charge he mishandled Hurricane Katrina because of his "clueless patrician" upbringing.

In addition to Williams and Couric, the other TV journalists on the official White House invitation list were Robin Roberts of ABC, as well as Sanjay Gupta and Fareed Zakaria of CNN. (Although it was implied on air, ABC's Claire Shipman was not on the list.) General Electric (and thus NBC) CEO Jeff Immelt was also on the list.

There were also print journalists who made the White House list: Thomas Friedman of the New York Times and Raju Narisetti and Rajiv Chandasekaran of The Washington Post.