Romenesko

Washington Post
"I don't want to beat [John McCain] to death with all his campaign's problems... didn't raise enough money, reshuffled some staff, only talks about the war," says the Chicago Tribune's Jill Zuckman. "That's the nature of campaigns, and you can still live to see another day." Newsweek's Jonathan Alter tells Howard Kurtz: "McCain may have turned on the press before the press turned on McCain, echoing this very stale line that negative reporting out of Iraq was because there is a media filter. It struck me as ironic that he engaged in garden-variety GOP press-bashing."