Caracas on the Potomac

From the article.

    Labor numbers showed a rapidly slowing economy.
    And it was presumably especially disturbing for
    the Whitehouse, who have been boasting about how
    hot the economy is and sneering at critics who
    pointed to the harm being done by chaotic policy.
    For this report seems to validate the critics.

    So there was only one thing to do ... fire the
    commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
    accusing her
    without evidence
    of manipulating the numbers for political purposes.

To be clear, every Whitehouse and Cabinet takes action and makes policy based on claims that are presented without worthwhile (or any) evidence (eg:CyberPearlHarbor)

It is my long and unbroken experience that voters who share a party with the WH are generally happy to accept claims without evidence.

And (before this PotUS) generations of news orgs reliably gave evidence-free PR a pass too. They dutifully re-printed agency statements without vetting it or considering the agency's history.

To that last, I will append that news orgs sometimes did their job if a Republican was in office. Usually not tho.

So I guess it's awesome that agency facts matter enough to check now. But why did we have to get to this point before the US Press would honor it's 1A protections in a meaningful and ongoing way?