But Mah Beat Sweeteners

Most journalist names - the ones who go on tv - are competing over who can ingratiate themselves the most with the incoming administration. If Dems want coverage they are going to have to work at it.

Oldheads remember how much derision the press corps directed at Democrats in in the minority who tried to do any oversight in the early Bush era.  These people are truffle pigs to power.

Related: if you were a low level gov't staffer, would you trust one of the political reporters of the New York Times  (or Dash Sulzberger generally) to not bury your whistleblowing under an avalanche of bothsidesing?

To not do worse than that?