Political changer Sasha Stone writes:

Cole Allen took the press at their word, which is why he couldn’t understand how they could have dinner with a “rapist, traitor, and pedophile.” He has a point. After all, why would they if they really meant everything they’ve been telling us for ten years?

Had he been better at breaching security — if he’d had a better weapon that could fire multiple rounds, there is a good chance members of the press could have been mowed down too …

The press didn’t seem to get it. None of them even took a pause, except to blame Trump, …

The press, however, should have better discernment. If they could just tell the truth for once, or at least try to correct the record, maybe we wouldn’t be here now, where yet another assassin felt he had no other choice but to do the world a favor by killing Hitler.

All of that is true. But I don’t think it matters, because today’s press is uninterested in telling anything but the partisan story. They are propagandists first and foremost. That’s why most of them got into “journalism” in the first place – not to tell the truth wherever it might lead them, but to further the left’s message of the left, a left in which most of them truly believe. They are in it for the perks too, of course, and the power. But they are also in it for the virtue.

Nor do they want to stop the Cole Allens of the world, except when the Cole Allens threaten the safety of the members of the press themselves. The foiled attack at the Correspondents’ Dinner was highly unusual in that regard. The press was not the target, but they would have been the collateral damage had Allen been better at his chosen task. Blaming Trump rather than themselves is a no-brainer for the press, because to blame themselves would take a much higher level of self-awareness and devotion to truth than they can muster at this point.