When beleaguered traditional journalism acts as a stenographer to power, who will hold second-term Obama to account? As he prepares for a second term as president, Barack Obama faces almost nothing but uncertainty: on the economy, foreign policy, war and peace, and so much more. But there will be at least one thing he can probably count on: what’s left of the traditional press corps to do little or nothing to hold him to account, because, as the just-ended election campaign amply demonstrates, America’s top journalists have pretty much gotten out of that business. The performance of America’s Big Media in the 2012 campaign isn’t quite as bad as the press behavior during the run-up to the Iraq war in 2002 and 2003

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