White House Whining

There’s been a very amusing back-and-forth, involving lots of hand-wringing and whining and wailing, over at Poynter media news site. The whole story is not worth telling, but it involves a girl who cried when she got rejected for her internship at Spin, wrote about it, and the mean cruel people who make fun of her for being naive.

Among the fray participants was former White House press office intern Justin “Apologist” McLaughlin, who weighed in with his own gripes about the treatment he received from arrogant members of the press corps:

I learned what “professional journalists” were like my first few days as a White House intern, where among other things, I answered calls from reporters….

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