Big Media's failure to fulfil fourth estate function in 2012 election

If media organizations want to know why they are struggling they should be thinking about this type of coverage more.

What's in those undisclosed tax returns? The likeliest explanation: the documents contain material so damaging that it would have torpedoed Romney's candidacy. But because the press turned into a lapdog at a time when the public desperately needed a watchdog, future candidates got the message that they, too, could keep such information from the electorate.