What hurts the media reputation is them making up news or covering various news in an obvious biased manner.
Now if say Mitt Romney had been seen sneaking out of some bimbos hotel room at 3 a.m. do you think the Times or Post would have buried the story?
Ah, that’s different! Romney’s a Republican. It’s a public service to expose Republicans.
Besides, a lot of people in both camps (left and right) just don’t think it serves any higher purpose to expose a man while his wife is struggling with terminal cancer.
If it were a Republican they probably couldn’t help themselves, but there’d still be backlash.
Let’s nor forget the recent attempted smear of John McCain about an ‘inappropriate relationship’ with a staffer. The MSM put it on the front page with absolutely no evidence other than gossip as quickly as they could, no reluctance there.