What's revealing about the "we would have asked if not for the shutdown!" defense is that it suggests that reporters are prisoners to the daily news cycle rather than the people who create the news cycle. You hear something akin to that during every election season, when some news anchor will interrupt six hours of wall-to-wall horse-race coverage to lament the fact that the media focuses too heavily on horse-race coverage to the exclusion of policy. Page one today is about the shutdown, ergo they're duty bound to ask about nothing but the shutdown — even though they're the ones who decided what page one would look like to begin with. Perfection.
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