Hey, I'm Brian Stelter. It's time for reliable sources.

Our weekly look at the story behind the story of how the media really works,

how the news gets made, and how all of us can make it better.

This hour, a blockbuster story from the New York Times,

lots of reactions to these headlines about Rod

Rosenbergs'in' we'll get into the sourcing and the motives and all of it.

Plus, Sean Hannity, the president's favorite interviewer, but at this

point aren't they really more co-hosts and later the death of the White House

daily briefing? Yeah, there really isn't a daily briefing anymore. What's

the press corps doing to get it back? All that coming up. But first, reading now

from the front page of the New York Times. The facts are still in dispute about a bitter he said she said case.

A Supreme Court confirmation drama unfolding, but lawmakers are being accused of a lack of sensitivity.

And some prominent politicians are saying, hey, what's the rush?

We need a little more time to follow up on the accusations and allegations.

All of this playing out in Washington, a city where men have always made the rules, and the

Senate remains an overwhelmingly male club.

This case is sending what one expert called an electric current of anger through women and a greater conviction

that women must be represented in high places in greater numbers.

All of that from the New York Times from the fall of 1991.

Days before another climactic Senate confirmation hearing.

The title of the story, by the way, it was by Maureen Dowd.

The title that day says the Senate and sexism.

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