inside baseball

When legislators talk about using arcane rules or little-known precedents to win victories, or when political consultants talk about advertising buys and messages in campaigns, it's called "inside baseball."

Today we have two journalists analyzing the "tick-tock" stories of other journalists. Mainly they talk about the revelations on Afghanistan as part of an Obama administration media strategy. But they are also interesting as inside baseball on how White House correspondents do their job.