Elizabeth Lauten and the Week the Media Broke

Elizabeth Lauten and the Week the Media Broke - Bloomberg Politics:
"And the press covered this like Lauten had stuffed the Obama girls in the trunk of a car and driven into Mexico.
As Alana Goodman documented at the Washington Free Beacon, ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today Show both gave precious time to the Lauten resignation, and two news trucks parked outside her parents' home.
The three main evening news broadcasts, on which time is even more precious, all covered Lauten. The fate of a GOP staffer who blurted about the president's daughters was judged to be important enough to take up four and a half of the 66 minutes the networks were using to describe everything that happened on Earth that day.

The conservative backlash to this was intense, and correct—and it will endure.
The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway, who is conservative media criticism what Alton Brown is to recipes, titled her reaction "Dear Media: This Elizabeth Lauten Nonsense Is Why Everybody Hates You."
Hemingway connected the four and a half minutes the networks gave to Lautengate to how the "same outlets either dramatically delayed or completely failed to cover Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber saying the healthcare law was passed in 2010 thanks to a 'lack of transparency' and the 'stupidity of American voters.'""