Philip Ruckers Create Suckers

Yet another ongoing tempest between the White House and mainstream journalists has erupted over the last couple of weeks. The Washington Post’s White House Bureau Chief Philip Rucker allegedly leaked content from an off-the-record dinner, leading to the firing of White House aide Madeleine Westerhout.
This preceded The Washington Post’s “Trump’s lost summer: Aides claim victory, but others see incompetence and intolerance” by Rucker and his colleague Ashley Parker. Their piece prompted a formal response from the White House, which published “The Washington Post’s Lost Summer.”
Now President Trump is raising the specter of a White House ban for Rucker and Parker:

Unsurprisingly, the “Democracy Dies In Darkness” Washington Post is backing Rucker all the way:

The specifics of this inside-baseball, Beltway-gossip spat aren’t of concern to NumbersUSA. But our Media Standards Program continues to fret over the ongoing transformation of journalism from a gritty pursuit of fact-gathering and even-handed informatism to a cubist artform of indoctrinating preferred narratives. This devolution has resulted in a loss of the public trust. This remains a troubling trend – high among the unsustainable aspects of our declining civic health. Reporters have all-too-often been replaced with poli-narrators!
Unfortunately, Rucker has revealed a reliance on a lazy shortcut mentality in the past for those of us who follow immigration.