Mad Minerva quotes Hersch on the the failure of the Times to do anything but carry water for the Obama administration:
"... the New York Times still has investigative journalists but they do much more of carrying water for the president than I ever thought they would … it's like you don't dare be an outsider any more."
Even aside from the ideological component that means the Times wants to carry President Obama's water, the massive growth in the federal government's power would lead even many hostile news outfits to conclude that it is too dangerous (to personal or corporate profits) to be an outsider.
Isn't this a reason alone to reduce the size and scope of the federal government? Isn't it a problem that even a watchdog rather than lap dog free press has reason to fear crossing the federal government?
And really, shouldn't President Obama want a smaller federal government? After all, if America is ungovernable, maybe shrinking the federal government will reduce it to a scope he can handle.
I'm sure President Obama would be just great to run a Swedisth-style government in a country the size of Sweden, but for a country the size of America, he's in over his head.
