Clinton may have come up with the best tack so far on the Democrat's problem with the media:

Mr. Clinton said the Republicans were benefiting from the support of an "increasingly right-wing and bellicose conservative press," which he contrasted with "an increasingly docile establishment press."

That's a good way to put it that doesn't outright accuse the mainstream press of being the pocket of the right wing (though they might as well be) and doesn't sound whiny in the way Daschle and, to some extent, Gore did. Perhaps Clinton realizes that winning over the "establishment press" will require firming up their backbones as much as the backbones of the Democratic leadership itself. Both are jello right now. But only one is being made to suffer for it.