Honus, my friend

(if that is inappropriate or a distasteful salutation, please let me know)

You have expressed this idea a couple of times. Some folks here (I said some) do not know how you have come to that conclusion.

That's OK. We can have any opinion we want.

But since you posit that the major broadcast networks were in Bush's "pocket", so to speak, could you give me some evidence and not just an assertion.

It's not an attack but my memory goes back to Nixon (I was too young during Eisenhower to remember anything useful) I cannot remember a republican president who was loved by the press.

Nixon -- hated

Ford -- years later Chevy Chase acknowledged that he ridiculed Ford because he wanted Carter to win

Reagan -- I'll reference Howard Kurt in the Washington Post He had a very contentious relationship with the press.

Bush (sr) -- He was probably the least disliked of the bunch

Bush (jr) -- I'll just pick this one from the NY Times Bushes' Wars Against Media

I think you'll have a hard time defending your view on Bush(jr) being a darling of the media.

Now if you said the national chamber of commerce, many nation-wide evangelical organizations, etc you'd get no argument from me.

But I don't see the NY Times, Washington Post, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, LA Times, etc having pictures of ole Georgie sitting on their desks.