JOURNALISM MARCHES ON, RIGHT OFF A CLIFF – AT 9:52 A.M. ET:  Well, I guess it's progress when you can get them to admit it.  From NewsBusters:

Cut out the middle-woman and install Obama's teleprompter on the Morning Joe set . . .

Give her high marks for candor: on today's show, Mika Brzezinski admitted that she has been "working with the White House" on oil spill talking points. But that still leaves the issue of the journalistic propriety of someone in Brzezinski's position serving as such a blatant shill for the president. H/t tip NB reader Ray R.

Mika could be seen reading from her notes during exchanges with former GE CEO Jack Welch, who was critical of the PBO's handling of the spill. After repeated ribbing from Welch and Joe Scarborough over her use of White House talking points, Mika came clean . . .

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Do you want to know why I have a file that I've been working on with the White House—and I'll be very transparent about that? Because of your friend Rudy Giuliani who came here last week spewing out a whole bunch of nothing.

COMMENT:  Of course, her daddy was Jimmah Carter's national security adviser, so Mika knows her way around the White House.  And considering the Carteresque nature of this presidency, she must feel right at home.

June 21, 2010