BS. The Establishment is pulling for Romney. The MSM and the Dems despise Newt. He's the most conservative Speaker in the history of the House and they don't want him anywhere near the halls of power again.
The media took on Gingrich when his staff quit. They wrote him off, they attacked him for lack of organization and focus and for having too much credit at Tiffany's. His divorces and peccadilloes are well-known and of no concern to the MSM, in part because his enemies within "conservative" circles all over the blogosphere are hammering him with the topic daily. It's as though he cheats on his ex-wives every day of the year.
The press pretty much shot their wad with Gingrich when his staff left. As I said, he only recently attained front-runner status and they'll only start hammering him again if they think it'll serve their purposes. Newt does well when attacked by the left because he can counterpunch. They're gun-shy about him and they've been reminded of his resilience in the face of their criticism over the last several months.
So where's the concerted, coordinated, DNC/RINO/MSM campaign to take him down? A few negative articles don't constitute a campaign of destruction.
No, they don't want him near the halls of power again, but they don't want ANY Republican to sit in the White House again. Most especially, one who would really take an axe to their cherished socialist behemoth. Newt's not that guy, so he gets a pass. If worse comes to worse, they know that he'll behave, where Bachmann, Cain, or Santorum wouldn't.
If the state-run media really wanted to take Newt down, they'd be pulling out all the stops NOW, and would be using their ample ammo (provided by Newt himself) to destroy his chances of winning the nomination.
His moment under the hot lights of the leftmedia slice and dice machine are coming, but only if he gets the nomination. Until then, they'll just nibble at his ankles. Just like they're doing with Romney.
Maybe they just wouold be happy enough with Newt or Mitt as the pubbie candidate that they are laying off him. After all, they have been busy battering the conservatives in the race.