Dana Milbank, objective reporting and euphemisms

As Joe noted below, Dana Milbank has an good piece on Karl Rove’s speech on media shortcomings at a Maryland college. But just as interesting as Rove’s thoughts is Milbank’s less restrained style of writing here, considering he’s supposed to be a straight-news reporter. His column is a good example of what I call cop-out journalism – not necessarily dumb, but pretending to be something it’s not.