This is so ridiculous:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (AP) – Representative Tom DeLay has notified House officials that he did not disclose all contributions to his legal defense fund as required by Congressional rules… [snip]
In a letter to the House clerk on Oct. 13, Mr. DeLay said he started an audit after discovering inconsistencies in his disclosures. He said the audit found that donations of $20,850 in 2000 and 2001 to the defense fund had not been reported.

So DeLay found accounting errors in his defense fund after an audit he initiated, and then he reported the errors himself. This story got picked up by the NY Times, CBS, ABC, NBC, and a dozen other major newspapers with headlines like “DeLay Failed to Comply with House Requirement.” Meanwhile, the only places you’ve read about Ronnie Earle’s missing evidence are the Houston Chronicle and NRO. It’s only news to the mainstream press if it’s bad news for DeLay.

BONUS: Check out this correction from a Reuters story picked up on washingtonpost.com:

In Oct 21 story, please read in 4th paragraph “…but now he is facing felony charges and fighting…” instead of “…but now is an indicted felon fighting…” (Correcting to make clear he is charged with a felony)

I think the parenthetical explanation is a nice touch. Reuters wants us to think it’s just making clear that DeLay is charged with a felony, when it’s actually correcting a false assertion that Tom DeLay is a felon.