Before Attorney General Bill Barr’s press conference this morning outlining what would be in the forthcoming Mueller report that has now been released, NBC News’ Chuck Todd wondered why America needed to hear from the AG:

Chuck Todd: "Why do we need to hear from Bill Barr when his job is to simply to facilitate the Mueller report?" #MTPDaily — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 17, 2019

First of all, when the Trump admin doesn’t do pressers, the media gets triggered. When they do, the same thing happens:

Journalists are mad at a press conference… https://t.co/OknBtvqTr2 — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 18, 2019

the more you think about it, why do we need all these federal agencies when their job is simply to facilitate the mueller report? — Nino (@baldingschemer) April 18, 2019

If only some journos would direct similar questions back at themselves:

Why do we need journalists if we can just read the report ourselves? — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 18, 2019

Why do we need to hear from Chuck Todd when his job is simply to facilitate the Mueller Report? (h/t @redsteeze) https://t.co/cG4pSDejS0 — (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) April 18, 2019

"Why do we need a mediator to explain the facts when we can just examine the facts ourselves?" asks the professional mediator whose entire alleged value proposition is explaining facts to people so they don't have to do it themselves. https://t.co/AthCiTrwpJ — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 18, 2019

Nailed it.

Sadly, self-awareness isn’t an MSM strong suit.