Who’s Worse: Obama or the Chron?

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston has sharp criticism today for the White House’s decision to threaten banishment for San Francisco Chronicle reporter Carla Marinucci, and views it as a continuation of open-government hypocrisy in the Obama administration. But Johnston also has some tough words for the Chron itself for allowing Obama staffers to complain about Marinucci and threaten the paper anonymously, thereby violating basic journalistic ethics.