There's this thing going around where the Romney camapaign has said "facts? we don't care about facts. Nothing you can do journalists!" And the journalists are like oh noes! He has used his kryptonite on our truthtelling superpower! There is nothing we can do now! Must... surrender....
When the press wants to throw a giant hissy fit over a lie, or quite often something they just pretend is a lie, they are quite capable of doing it. For weeks.