Rubbish. The news media still won't tell us who hired Craig Livingstone. Where were the Rose Law Firm billing records, and why did they turn up in the White House only *after* the special prosecutor's time had expired?
More recently, what is the *content* of the leaked Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee memos? Did Sandy Berger have a camera-phone when he was stealing classified documents just prior to our November election? Why did the press keep silent about Bernie Kerik's scandals until *after* he was nominated for a Bush cabinet position (what, that behavior only bothered them later), and who leaked it?!
So no, the partisan press deserves no special legal rights...and no, things won't be different with the Old Media.