A fair, complete media outlet might feel compelled to do both. The Big Three networks aired nothing on Lindsey, but by Monday, they were in their second day of hyping Steven Brill's article attacking Starr. This response to a Brill story is a much different reaction than the one the networks had in October 1996, when Brill's monthly magazine The American Lawyer carried a Stuart Taylor article saying Paula Jones had a credible case of sexual harassment against Clinton. ABC's Jeff Greenfield briefly mentioned it as an example of liberal media bias on the October 31 World News Tonight. CBS and NBC waited ten weeks, until the Jones case was about to be argued before the Supreme Court, to acknowledge the piece.
Democrats calling for a special prosecutor for the special prosecutor seems to be big news.
Then-Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole called for a Walsh probe, as ABC's World News Tonight reported on November 8, 1992. But CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News never touched the story. I also talked to them. I don't think I would have survived any political attacks by Dole and Bush, by some of the others in the Senate, but for the press. Earlier this year, the networks attacked Ken Starr for having no sense of public relations.