No, Lanny, the news media took a relatively non-story and created a huge negative story because of their stubbornness and their arrogance. Again, where was the news media's self-righteousness about "the right to know" when Ted Kennedy delayed reporting his accident to the local police, or when the Clinton White House delayed reporting on the "suicide" of Vince Foster?
Or the numerous successful cover-ups of events in past administrations that we never did hear about.
And while Drunken Ted was "delaying" said report, a young woman was effin' drowning - a young woman who may well have been saved if he'd made one phone call to the cops instead of the 26 he made to his political advisors!