It's no secret that the conversations for most old guard media outlets have been very supportive of Democratic agenda points, from Obamacare and more federal spending to the first lady's healthy menu rules for schools and Hillary Clinton's international outreaches while secretary of state.
But the controversy over Clinton's use of a private server, instead of a government process, for all of her emails while in that high appointed position, is raising eyebrows even in those ranks.
In fact, Cary Gibson at USNews blogged that the "real damage" is that "New scandals like this one create a sense of foreboding that maybe there could be more out there."
And that might even make a difference in her soon expected announcement to start a campaign for president.
Among the latest revelations is that her email system wasn't secure for months while she used it for government business, and she did not sign a standard agreement when she left office that promised she had left government property behind.
The blog suggested strongly that Clinton's long-term prospects would not be damaged by the scandal, but if the analysis and eventual release of copies of the emails includes anything "inflammatory," the story would be reignited.
The issue developed when it was revealed that Hillary Clinton set up her own email server for herself and her aides while she was secretary of state, even though standard procedure is for all government emails to be run through and archived by a government system.
Then it got worse, when it was revealed that Clinton kept the server and the government emails when she left office.
And even worse, when it was discovered she turned over to the government the emails she thought were government's, and deleted thousands of others, without anyone apparently evaluating them independently for their significance to government issues.
Politico had the report on Tuesday that the State Department "had no record" that Clinton signed "a standard form declaring that she surrendered all official records before leaving her post."
"We have reviewed Secretary Clinton's official personnel file and administrative files and do not have any record of her signing the" form, a spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said.
But Politico reported the department's Foreign Affairs Manual declares that "a separation statement will be completed whenever an employee is terminating employment."
In a further development Tuesday, the Hill reported, "Hillary Clinton did not encrypt her private email service with a digital certificate for the first three months of her tenure as secretary of state."
That comes from a security research firm, Venafi, which said from January to March 2009, there was no digital certificate that showed the site was secure.
"This means that during the first three months of Secretary Clinton's term in office, web browser, smartphone and tablet communications would not have been encrypted," Kevin Bocek, an officer with Venafi, confirmed to The Hill.
That was while Clinton was traveling to China, Egypt, Israel, Japan and South Korea.
Confirmed Bocek, "Attackers could have eavesdropped on communications. As well, the server would not have been uniquely identified as being clintonemail.com and therefore could have been spoofed – allowing attackers to more easily trick an unsuspecting user of the site to hand over their username and password or other sensitive information."
At Politico former Justice Department official Dan Metcalfe recalled weathering "about two dozen" Clinton records scandals, "including two that amazingly still have never become public."
"I thought I had seen the last of them. At the very least, I thought I had become immune to being shocked by anything in that vein.
"It turns out I was wrong on both counts," he wrote.
"We now have former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton being revealed as someone who took the unprecedented step of arranging to use her personal email account for all of her official email communications. What's more, she decided to use her own email server equipment, rather than a commercial Internet service provider, so that the records of her email account would reside solely within her personal control at home. And if that were not enough, she then proceeded blithely – though not uncharacteristically – to present herself to the public, at a press conference held on March 10, as if there were really nothing 'wrong' about any of this at all."
But he said her actions run afoul of things like the Federal Records Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and more.
"Bluntly put, when this unique records regime was established, somebody was asleep at the switch, at either the State Department or the National Archives and Records Adminisitration … or both," wrote Metcalfe, who ran the Office of Information and Privacy.
House Speaker John Boehner offered a simple solution, for Hillary Clinton to turn over the server to an independent arbitrator for investigation.
She already has rejected that idea.
President Obama, meanwhile, joked about it.
He was envious, he said at the annual Gridiron dinner in Washington, that she has a server in her house.
"Hillary has got a server in her house. I didn't even know you could have one of those in your house. I am so far behind. I would have gotten one."