(updated below)

One of the critical issues which that disgraceful Michael Gordon article in yesterday’s New York Times raises
is the extent to which so many national journalists are so eager to
prove to right-wing fanatics that they are sympathetic to their agenda.
Years of being attacked by the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys and
Bill O’Reillys as being part of the dreaded “liberal media” has created
an obsequious need among many journalists to curry favor — through
reporting which echoes right-wing narratives and/or by attacking the
“liberal bias” of their fellow journalists — all in order to avoid
being criticized by the right-wing noise machine. That is the defining symptom of The Mark Halperin Syndrome.

Glenn Greenwald