I'M on phone so this will be brief and typo-laden.

The controversy is not about whether Green and his ilk "deserve" to be there, the controversy is whether they "deserve" to be there as journalists. Again: Obama is a very accessible president. What you see as shown to the press corps is very different than what you see elsewhere... And with GWB or Clinton, the press corps was all you got. So talking to Youtubers? No big. Talking to Youtubers instead of journalists? Outrage. Then to have the Tubers (i like that better; there's an appropriate William Gibson quote) argue the outrage is jealousy? Yeah, the results are entirely predictable.

Look: I hate tubers. I hate them because they exist solely to say "look at me!" They are the very purest of attention whores, and considering the wages of attention- whoredom are so grindingly low, a successful attention whore is either funded by his parents or a shameless self-debaser. Either way, they're scum.

But largely harmless scum. The great thing about tubers is outside their carefully tended beds of manure they're just like any other vegetable... Wash'em off and throw 'em in the soup. This whole article is about a human potato thinking he's a journalist when in fact, sometimes a potato is exactly what' s needed.