It is not journalists who are making the allegations, it is the US intelligence community. You are promoting "alternative facts" here in trying to blame the media for reporting what the intelligence community is saying. Political rumour mongering is like the promotion of all the Clinton "scandals" (including murder) by the loony right-wing media.  
There is most certainly something rotten about the ties Trump and his cohort have with Putin. There is no doubt that the Russians aided Trump in his campaign.