Yapping Dogs & Maytag Repairmen

“I know to a lot of people watching it, we look like a bunch of yapping dogs,” says Ron Hutcheson, the White House correspondent for the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain, tells NPR’s David Folkenflik in a story about the vice president and the press. “But there’s a real fundamental issue about our government–one of the things that sets us apart from places like China and Russia–and that is our system is based on openness and accountability.”

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