Tech dirt’s stepping up and arguing for actual journalism:

Let’s be clear: uncritically reporting the White House’s “nothing to see here” stance isn’t journalism — it’s stenography.

The media’s job isn’t to parrot White House talking points — it’s to uncover the truth.

here have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again

With ‘something’ being leaks to the press, obviously, not war crimes or glaring mishamdling of sensitive information - something the last Trump administration was big on, remember all those Top Secret files in Mar-a-Lago?

those days are over. While…

Yes, while Trump controls the government those days are over.