Glad you brought this up.
I've always tried to read stuff on both sides, simply because you cannot argue intelligently against a POV if you're not aware of what their arguments are. But for the first time
ever, I am finding myself simply ignoring a lot of these stories because I have lost faith in any pretense of objectivity or even honesty by much of the media. We entered a new journalist era during this campaign that I don't think I've ever seen before, and the best illustration of that is the Jim Rutenberg article about the moral case for journalistic bias put on the front page of the NYT by the editors. There's a discussion about it here:
http://canadafreepress.com/article/...alists-to-abandon-objectivity-to-defeat-trum#
Essentially, that article was the Manifesto for journalists to put "love of country" over journalistic standards. And in my entire life, I have never before seen anything remotely approaching the post-election war being waged against a President elect. And I think it is being waged in part by journalists who feel morally justified in not even attempting to be objective.
So, the bottom line is that you are right -- I believe we will see four years of constant
reporting of "scandals", the likes of which we've never seen before. Anything that happens, even if there is plenty of precedent for it in the past, will be presented as the end of Western democratic traditions. And since I do not have the time or inclination to separate the wheat from the chaff, I'm going to ignore it.
tl;dr: Too many on the left, including many in the media, apparently have forgetting the parable of the boy who cried wolf. A whole lot of people are simply going to tune it all out, and rightly so.