"The Old Media will pay a big price for this after the election - they have lost ALL cred, and are now just shills for the dems."
That's what I think too. Everyone to the right of center now knows deep down that the MSM are liars, so even if the MSM doesn't completely whither away, they are at least discounted. That in turn means the MSM will try to scream even louder to get their message heard, making them look even more like fools. We will also turn en masse to alternative media for our news, the landscape will be completely different in 2008.
"The Old Media will pay a big price for this after the election"
Not if Kerry wins.
What you're seeing is the media trying to salvage Kerry's "October surprise"... scraping, clawing, trying to hold on to the last few strands of this bogus story.