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Wasn't that NBC story over the top? I listened to this on the radio driving home (they simulcast with the TV station) right after reading this thread on Free Republic (the last thing I do before logging off at work). It's as if this was WATERGATE in the middle of July, 1974. Not ONE mention about what Wilson said on GMA, or Novak's statement. Rest assured, NBC knew about these two important stories, but chose not to tell us, as they have a DNC-inspired agenda. PATHETIC!

But chose not to tell us-is IMHO, the operative phrase.
They are obviously no longer reporters,journalists, the press etc.
They are information manipulators.
Now I have no particular problem with information management,the old term.
The major difference is the information I manipulated was was strictly controlled, and any attempt on my part to play games with it in order to slant it to provoke a desired outcome had built in checks and balances, and the penalty for obvious ethical lapses in dealing with it were rather severe.
The "professional media" has no such ethical or legal restraints anymore.
They have, as a group, lost their once widely assumed to be deserving of respect position as professional watchers of the power players.
Professional reporters must either re-embrace their roots, or become irrelevant.
I think it is fairly obvious they will, as a group, choose the latter course.