This week, President Trump’s administration continued to fire verbal salvos at the media, following press secretary Sean Spicer’s remarks from just after the inauguration. Trump himself acknowledged a “running war” with the media, while chief strategist Steve Bannon demanded the press “keep its mouth shut and listen for awhile” (ironically) in comments to the New York Times.

Most journalists do well to keep their biases in check and ably perform their jobs. Going back decades, however, presidential administrations (especially Republican ones) have detected a lack of fairness from the press and responded accordingly. The resulting First Amendment hysteria tends to be much ado about nothing. The unsurprising, mildly antagonistic relationship between the press and the president is old news.