Over at his MSNBC Blog, Glenn Reynolds writes:

The story's starting to take off, but some people still think that media folks are stonewalling to protect one of their own -- even though they'd be quick to jump on a similarly outragous statement by a public figure who didn't work for the media.
Will it be all over the news before the week is out? It's likely.

And if it's not, a lot of viewers will decide, again, that they can't trust the big media to tell them the whole story.