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Journalists around the world are targeted by suicide bombers, threatened with "hate crimes" prosecutions and thrown in jail for defending a free press from crazed Islamists. You wouldn't know it from the circus antics of the U.S. media.

Vice President Dick Cheney, as all are aware from the Beltway press corps' incessant flapping and yapping, was involved in an accidental shooting during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas. The victim is recovering.

It's the me-me-media hyperventilators who need intensive care. Peacock Network News correspondent David Gregory, whose self-absorption rivals the leading brand of paper towels, had a snit fit over the 18-hour delay in public disclosure of the incident. His exchange Monday with White House press secretary Scott McClellan was a walking advertisement for beta blockers.

Mr. McClellan: "David, hold on, the cameras aren't on right now. You can do this later."

Mr. Gregory: "Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras. Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question."

McClellan: "You don't have to yell."

Mr. Gregory: "I will yell. If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong."

Mr. McClellan: "Calm down, Dave, calm down."

Mr. Gregory: "I'll calm down when I feel like calming down."

Funny thing is, I can't recall the mainstream media melting down over the 30-hour delay — presided over by Hillary Clinton, according to internal records — in releasing the late White House counsel Vincent Foster's suicide note to authorities and her own husband. Can you?