[dinasour]

News media is held back by lack of "on the record" information from law enforcement. No media conspiracy here.

Lack of information has never stopped them before.

That is part of it, but there's more to this. "The LEO's didn't tell me" excuse is just being offered to provide plausible deny-ability.

[defenderSD]

"Lack of information has never stopped them before."

Say what? Except for the forged Bush ANG documents (and other possible forgeries), the media does not manufacture it's own information but has to obtain it from some kind of credible source.