Self-absorbed and sloppy reporters

Why do so many sports reporters fill reams of paper complaining about how the media cover things? Isn't that complaining about yourself? And who wants to read that? Bruce Allen ponders Tony Massarotti's contribution to the ouevre, in which Massarotti wonders why Tom Brady's baby is getting more press attention than some divorce case that may or may not involve Bill Bellichick. Yes, it's terrible when the media does that, isn't it, Mr. Member of the Media?

Jeff Keating, meanwhile, wonders how we can trust the press when they can't even get the make of the governor's new car right:

... The Associate Press called it a DeVille in copy that the Worcester Telegram ran today and the Boston Globe did the same as late as Sunday. And of course the Boston Herald started it all with "a DeVille for Deval". But wait - Cadillac hasn't made the DeVille since 2005. The car Gov. Patrick actually leased, the DTS, is a new model that replaced the DeVille starting in 2006. Cadillac's PR materials describe the DTS as continuing the legacy of the DeVille." A minor detail perhaps, but would this story have such symbolic potency if the press accurately described the car as a Cadillac DTS? I think not.

If it's annoying to read a member of the media complaining about the media, how annoying is it to read a member of the media complaining about a member of the media complaining about the media?