The biggest problem with the press, next to their blatant bias, is their absolute laziness. They take a source and run with the story without checking it out, especially if it fits their agenda. We've seen this multiple times, recently. Notable stories include this Gulag nonsense, the TANG/Bush documents, and the phony Iranian-forged Iraqi ballot story. You may as well read the tabloids.
I think the whole operation about these non-existent prisons was a sting to bring some of these leakers to the surface. The MSM is so lazy and biased that they ran with this fiction and now this is just another confirmation of it. A brilliant "gotcha" by some Bush insiders that not only smoked out the leakers, but put another nail in the coffin of MSM credibility.