Can you blame the public for not trusting the media when you read things like this?

Because the case involves the intersection of politics and the press, the day sometimes had a hall-of-mirrors element. At one point, Mr. Cheney’s onetime press secretary, Pete Williams of NBC News, asked Mr. Fitzgerald how the prosecutor could take the word of “three reporters” (including his current bureau chief and boss, Tim Russert) “versus the vice president’s chief of staff,” with whom Mr. Williams served in the Pentagon when Mr. Cheney was secretary of defense in the first Bush administration.