Commentary: America, don’t get used to it!

Maybe it’s too late. Maybe we’re habituated to the atrocious news we consume daily. But our shock should not wear off so quickly.Over the past five decades, every American president has been harried, pursued and wounded, to some degree, by the nation’s press. John F. Kennedy had his detractors over the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and acknowledged the press’ “abrasive quality.” Lyndon B. Johnson was run out of office by a national press that lost faith in the “pr