Tom Blumer has a very good piece at PJMedia.com called Ten Forms of 2013 Media Malpractice in which he describes ways not-so-honest media outlets — which include many of the oldest and once most respected ones — fail in their important role. 
The include pretending “that “no one” is saying something, when they really are” and burying the party affiliation of Democrats involved in scandal and crime.
It should be noted protecting the dishonest and incompetent doesn’t help organizations one cares about albeit in this case the problem has become circular much like, well, a whirlpool around the drain.
Incompetent and dishonest Democrat Party leaders are supported by incompetent and dishonest media institutions who then return the support to the media institutions.
Expect a collapse of both.
Media Malpractice