Clinton strategist says media is big loser in election

Mark Penn:

"I think here the media is on very dangerous ground. I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Governor Palin ever filed, if they don't do that for all four of the candidates, they're on very dangerous ground. I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems."

Indeed.

News media types now at the top of the heap (of a news business on decline, as Internet competition is forcing newspapers and networks to let people go) are jealous of bloggers who haven't had to make the same climb, and of a Veep candidate who didn't go Ivy League but came out of "nowhere." And it shows. Read more here.