I don’t think we should assume the press has clean hands. They continually lie for the skanks and call anybody who makes the skanks nervous “fake news”. They ruthlessly control what’s permitted to be said on their forums. A prominent elected “Never-Trumper” tried to help Hastert cover up.
I’d like to think that even severe lefties would condemn pedos who rape and sometimes torture children. I couldn’t keep quiet even if I found out my best friend did that. I think at least some of the press are dirty too. Maybe the PTB in networks and/or print news control their underlings.
I also don’t want to paint with a brush so wide that innocents are condemned, but I don’t think something this widespread was unknown to all the people who knew and didn’t tell to protect a really big paycheck.
It’s(pedophilia) covered up relentlessly with many death penalties for those trying to uncover what routinely goes on.