But when pressed, most say their opening has come because of a polarized electorate that suspects the media of doing the other side's bidding, coupled with high-profile journalistic scandals.

It will be hard to measure that impact, he said, because the press is also recovering from journalistic scandals at The Times, CBS and Newsweek.

Has the recent spate of journalistic scandals damaged the media's credibility?

All journalistic scandals have the common factor that they call into question the integrity and truthfulness of journalism.

This is a major journalistic scandal, not just the loss of innocence you suggest.

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer argued on Fox News' channel's Special Report with Bret Baier on October 24, "This is really a journalistic scandal.

As journalistic scandals crop up with more frequency, surveys show trust in the news media eroding, newspaper circulation declining and young people disengaged from newspapers and television news.

The club was an inadvertent catalyst of a journalistic scandal for CBS.

It's interesting (to me, at least) that most of the journalistic scandals come down to reporters creating "real people."

He drops the iillm career and launches into a lecture on his latest journalistic scandal featuring pork-barrel politics and the state water I tune him out.