What Politico is doing to D.C. journalism

Hint: It ain't good.

Two recent headlines:

Gibbs gives nonanswers at briefing

and

Obama gets ahead of prompter

The first 'news' story was about how WH spokesman Robert Gibbs did not fully answers all the questions posed to him at Monday's daily briefing, which, in the longview of WH briefings, is equivalent to the headline, “Sun rises in the east.” (Think Scott McClellan and Ari Fleischer for the masters of the nonanswer.) But Gibbs did it this week so according to Politico, it was news.

The second 'news' item was, sadly, pretty self-explanatory.

It's like Politico knew I was going to write a column called “100 Days of the media's trivial pursuits.”