text: There is no doubt..."reporters can be a real 'pain in the #$$%'"  Guess what, when your job is to provide information and acquiring that information requires asking difficult questions, the person asked may be unhappy.  I hope no one is too surprised by this disclosure.  
  
  Donald Trump has taken the "war with the media" to a whole new level.  If the news is "bad" for him he blames the messenger, calls them the "enemy" and declares they reports "fake news."  He has openly ecouraged violence against reporters.  He has mocked a disabled reporter, and, regularly, attempts to bully anyone bold enough to ask him difficult questions.  lt's no surprise that other very conservative candidates and office holders follow his lead.
  
  The media provides much-need public accountability.  Sometimes "our guy or our gal" ends up looking bad.  Guess what? That's their fault, not the media's.  
  
  Don't forget Harry Truman's little sign "if you can't stand the heat, stay the hell out of the kitchen"   Gary C