The lessons the LA Times takes from Rathergate:

The Internet and cable TV news have created a 24-hour news cycle that presses hard against news shows with a fixed daily time, like network news, as well as daily newspapers. The fear that an exclusive story will last only a few hours is often fed by sources, who threaten to take the story elsewhere.
But more insidious, and less clearly visible, is what happens when reporters turn into stars and the stars become powerful executives while still retaining the fiction that they are reporters. Like Dan Rather.

There’s something deeper, of course, they are blind to (willfully or not), because they’re too close to it.