I agree, this administration is getting softball treatment...just as Reagan did. I am not at all suggesting that you are stupid. I don't even know you or your news-seeking inclinations. The problem that I have is the notion that the media is state-run. It clearly is not but its reporting is shallow and incomplete.
When some politician or media pundit makes a statement that is obviously in juxtaposition with facts and reality, today's crop of weak, silly-ass reporters simply report it -- making no effort to factually show the errors or misrepresentations of the quoted statement or how it conflicts with what they (the politicians and pundits) have stated in the past. In my mind, nearly all of the media -- left, right, center -- is guilty of this.
Exhibit A -- Judith Miller, formerly of the New York Times, who presented as fact the misrepresentations offered by the previous administration in the run up to the invasion of Iraq. Then Cheney, in turn, cited that paper in support of his false and misleading claims re weapons of mass destruction and the bone-headed notion that Iraq was in cahoots with Bin Laden. The NY Times eventually had the good sense to can her. Does that wash her up in the media? No, she becomes a "journalist commentator?" on Fox News, for heavens sake!
Tell me that's not silly or stupid.