CLAUDIA ROSETT: First, they came for Fox News . . . . “This would be a very good moment for all those other news organizations — CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, the newspapers and the news web sites – to offer President Obama the perspective that it is utterly inappropriate for White House personnel to be opining publicly on the overall fitness of specific news outlets.” Some of ’em have — but I think others are still angling for a government bailout . . . .

UPDATE: A reader emails:

The criticism of Fox is not aimed at Fox. It is aimed at liberal editors, and is intended to quarantine the dramatic news being uncovered by right-of-center media. If the liberal editors accept the criticism, they’ll feel good about hiding right-of-center news stories from busy, non-political, swing-voting Americans. See this passage from last Friday’s NJ;

Here’s Gibbs, at the daily briefing on October 1, referring to the conservatives’ attacks against Jones and Sergant: “I think it’s a shame to watch what they do — I think it’s a shame. I hope that as people watch, they’ll match up some of the actual truth to what is being said on some of these occasions and start to provide a little reality check to some of what’s going on.” Was he addressing that comment to the millions of Americans going about their lives, or to the mainstream reporters sitting in front of him? Both, probably, with perhaps an emphasis on the latter.

“The only way to protect against this is to have a narrative about what the attacks are about,” says Jennifer Palmieri, senior vice president of communications at the liberal Center for American Progress. The audience for that narrative is the press. “If you dissected where all these attacks are coming from and demonstrate that they’re not credible and are politically motivated, you’re going to get the benefit of the doubt.”

This kind of tactic can work, providing the established media plays along.

They’ve been pretty supine so far. The question is whether Palmieri, in search of her “echo chamber,” will find it as easy to eunuchize the New York Times, the Washington Post, et al. as she did Matthew Yglesias. . . .