As predicted yesterday morning, here's NBC's Washington bureau chief Mark Whitaker echoing Halperin's gripe that the establishment press hasn't been hard enough on the president-elect:
...NBC Washington bureau chief Mark Whitaker said that reporters have not been aggressive enough during Obama's post-election pressers.
"Our job is to hold him to account," Whitaker said, adding that he thinks "we're going to have to get tougher."
And by tougher, he doesn't mean greater in-depth analysis of policy, he means more taint-mongering of course. Yep. Your so-called "liberal" news outfit. The president-elect has another press conference today and given the cavalcade of awful we're faced with as a nation, it'll be taint, taint, taint. All taint all the time. Why? Because Whitaker and Halperin say so.
ADDING... And that goes for Milbank, too.