While Glenn's of course right that in general the idea that national Village reporters have a strongly adversarial relationship with the government is absurd at least in terms of what most of us think that should mean, I also think there is one sense in which it's true. There is an ongoing competition about just who is in charge of the whole show.
As for Obama and the press, I think it's been a weird mix so far. On one hand you get the Matt Drudge Rules Their World and Republicans Drive The Freak Show Story Of The Day stuff which obviously isn't exactly friendly, but on the other you've had the kind of deference to and privileging of anonymous administration sources which we had under Bush which is good for Obama though certainly not necessarily good in a general sense, except maybe as some counterweight to the Freak Show crap.
