Exactly. The first thing they started yelling was how this was an unprecedented action. "Unprecedented!!!" said many FReepers immediately, some having already recalled what Presidents Clinton and Clinton did. Now THAT was truly unprecedented, i.e., it had never been done before...wiping out the whole bunch. You would think that Wallace and others would at least put some minions to work finding out something about the history of firing fed prosecutors, but they just read and feed off of others in the DBM. How lazy. Or do they just pick up the action lines that they want to run with and simply don't care about the facts?
I think you hit on the correct answer!
Their primary concern is impressing their colleagues in the news rooms - that's the way to career advancement and Pulitzer prizes. Politically correct (i.e., liberal-slanted) news reporting is the way to go, not concern with the facts.