Dinner for the elite.

Howard Kurtz reports today: A regular dinner for journalists attended by Rahm Emmanuel is held at the Watergate.

Among those in regular attendance are David Brooks and Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Gene Robinson and Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post, NBC's David Gregory, ABC's George Stephanopoulos, PBS's Gwen Ifill, the New Yorker's Jane Mayer, Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum, former Time managing editor Walter Isaacson and staffers from Bradley's Atlantic and National Journal, including Ron Brownstein, Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan Rauch.

Who is missing from this list? If you guessed any representative from conservative leaning outlets you are correct. By and large I do not care for most conservative views. However, it is intriguing that none would be invited to what is intended to be a dinner party open to a frank discussion of ideas. Further if you think the MSM is an echo chamber that is, in essence, worthless except as an echo chamber you are correct. Or if you think the media is, in essence, Chicago Slim's lap dog - you are correct:
The networks have given President Obama more coverage than George W. Bush and Bill Clinton combined in their first months - and more positive assessments to boot.