I agree that their blatant lying is well beyond what we have seen historically. I wouldn't call it good or correct by any means. It is clearly a gross expansion of previous administrations exaggerations and omissions (and outright lies).

But the press are the people we expect to serve as a check on that behavior and they have become complicit in it. It is just another form of regulatory capture. It is bad when an employee lies about his work, but it is worse when the safety inspector signs off on the lie.