When Bernstein says this is new territory for the media, he means they don't have control anymore. He says it's an attack on the press, but it's that they have been found out. The voting Republic, due to what's happened these last eight years, has awakened out of their complacency, become well informed, learned the game liberals have been playing, can't be conned anymore. Democrats should have realized this with the election that they had lost control of the 'narrative' but they have a real problem with denial. They just keep doing the same thing that is failing. One definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. 
  Each time one of these old has beens tries to use their clout against this president and it doesn't work, they lose what remaining respect they had. One by one different celebrities are surfacing to speak out, but when it doesn't work, all they've proven is how irrelevant they are. It's better to keep the fantasy that you still matter.