From WNYKRC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. As the president

shuffles his cabinet for a second term, the White House press corps is undergoing its own

changing of the guard. At the Washington Post, Amy Goldstein, Mike Allen, and Dana Milbank are moving out.

Peter Baker, Jim Vandehay, and Mike Fletcher

are moving in. Over the years, we've talked to Dana Milbank many times. One of our favorite

stories was his expose of the Goyle foil, named for an Indian reporter who former press

secretary Ari Fleischer turned to when he needed to get out of a tight spot. Mr. Goyle could always be relied upon to ask a question about the India-Pakistan dispute to groans from the rest of the press corps.

But sometimes Dana Milbank himself became news. For instance, when it was his turn to write the White House Pool report, a brief synopsis of events written by a designated reporter to be used by the rest of the press corps.

Recently, the White House had taken it upon itself to distribute the pool report to friends of the administration everywhere.

Millbank fought back by writing this.

Time Marine One pulled up at Andrews, 847. Wheels up for Air Force One, 857. Number of

engines on Air Force One, four. Time aloft, an hour 16. Having your pool report distributed to the

White House staff and a thousand strangers, priceless. Tana, welcome back to the show. Well, thank you.

Is there any story that you've done in your tenure there that stands out for you?

Well, there are many that I'd like to forget, of course, but the one that sort of defined my time on

the beat was one in October of 2002, so it was just before the midterm elections.

And they put a rather provocative headline on it on the front page and said, for Bush, the facts are malleable.

And the whole White House basically exploded.

Then I sort of became their official punching bag.

Yeah, that was a landmark story because you're really the first to observe on the front page of a major newspaper that the administration was filled with liar, liar pants on fire. Although to suggest that

you were a kiss and cousins before that is probably a stretch, you came to the post. It was from

the New Republic, wasn't it? Yeah, Wall Street Journal, then the New Republic. And well,

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