JEFFREY BROWN: And we take a closer look now with Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a research organization, and Jane Hall, a media professor at American University. She was, until recently, a contributor to a weekly media watch program on FOX News.

Welcome to both you.

Tom, you have been watching this relationship for a long time go from bad to worse. What's going on? What do you see?

TOM ROSENSTIEL, director, Project for Excellence in Journalism: Well, this is not what without precedent. The Bush administration hit pretty hard against, of all things, The New York Times, particularly in the first term of the administration.

I think part of what's going on here is a sincere feeling on the part of people -- some people in the...