Like A Breath Of Fresh Air Long In Coming

New White House Press Secretary Tony Snow is issuing detailed rebuttals to what he considers unfair coverage of Bush.

Cool! Snow started only Monday and has yet to give his first public press briefing. But boy, is he giving notice of how he intends to operate.

Bill Sammon in the Examiner.com National/Top News page posted today a story titled, Snow issues detailed rebuttals to media coverage of the president.

A couple of quotes:

“The New York Times continues to ignore America’s economic progress,” blared the headline of an e-mail sent to reporters Wednesday by the White House press office.

And,

“CBS News misleadingly reports that only 8 million seniors have signed up for Medicare prescription drug coverage,” Wednesday’s missive said. “But 37 million seniors have coverage.” On Tuesday, the White House railed against “USA Today’s misleading Medicare story.”

Read the whole thing.