Lapdogs are getting restless.

Via US News:

Fifty percent of White House reporters say a White House official has lied to them and 42 percent agree that the Obama White House is “the most secretive” they’ve ever covered while only 20 percent disagree, according to a new survey by Politico Magazine.

The survey, based on a lengthy questionnaire filled out by 61 correspondents who cover the presidency, shows a deep skepticism toward the Obama administration and reflects a tension between the media and the president and his aides – a situation that has been customary over the years regardless of who was in the Oval Office.

The survey finds that 39 percent of the White House reporters have had a White House official swear at them. Forty-one percent say George W. Bush’s White House was more forthcoming with information for reporters than Barack Obama’s White House; only five percent say the Obama team is more forthcoming; 13 percent say they are about the same, and 41 percent aren’t sure.

“Most questions don’t get answered,” said Mark Knoller of CBS News. Asked the best way to get information from the White House, Jonathan Karl of ABC News said, “By going outside the White House – to Congress, the Pentagon, the State Department or the political world.” And Caren Bohan of Reuters said, “From the outside in.”