Posted on 08/08/2008 7:57:28 PM PDT by jerod
AP's approach: 'Better to get it right even if we couldn't get it first'
WASHINGTON - Reporters don't like being beaten on a major political story, especially by a supermarket tabloid. And being beaten up over not reporting one is even less appealing.
But a sexual affair can have just two people who know the truth. Without witnesses, documents, photographs or some form of irrefutable evidence pointing to the truth, news organizations will not endanger their own integrity.
That made it difficult to prove — and to print — the rumors that John Edwards had cheated on his seriously ill wife while running for president. Reporters were left to poke around the edges of a potentially career-ending scandal in search of an opening.
"It's not like they didn't know it was there," said Mark Feldstein, a former investigative reporter who teaches journalism at George Washington University.
"Proof is the biggest issue," Feldstein said. "The National Enquirer is not well-regarded as a news source by the news media."....
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
OMG! LOL ROFL and all the rest...
Did they actually write that with a straight face.
Integrity?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
As if they'd never fake documents....
And that’s why the MSM didn’t report those rumors about John McCain either ... oh, wait
If this hadn’t been all over the internet, they never would have said anything.
Yep. like they were so careful with the McCain affair claim in the NYTimes.
But it was really easy for them to try to disprove the story.
One has to be brain dead, i.e. a democrat, to not see the political bias of the media.
right.
this is just playing to their peers and themselves.
self justification. we’re so honest, we have so much integrity.../s
Like proof from Kinkos?
Lets just see if they will do the foot work on the new information NE is following.
The money trail, 3 million digs for the woman and the guy who is claiming to be the father also admitting to receiving large sums of money.
BS, All they have to do is ask the perp in person and film the answer(s).
“Without witnesses, documents, photographs or some form of irrefutable evidence pointing to the truth, news organizations will not endanger their own integrity.”
I’d like to know what ‘news organizations’ this statement is referring to. ABC, CNN, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, NBC, the NYT, the LAT, AP, Reuters, Time, Newsweek, etc. have not endangered their integrity; they prostituted it.
Please..someone make the list of repubs in the last 20 years that have been assaulted by the drive-by media. Some were guilty, some were innocent. ALL were hounded and accused by the msm.
PMSNBC and the MSMs:
“Spin spin spin spin
Spin spin spin spin
Wonderful Spin, Mahvelous Spin...”
Who was feeding this story to the press to start with? Who put the woman up in hotels? John McCain wouldn't consider Edwards for a VP slot - and the "press" refused to look at a rape charge against Clinton - much worse than a one night stand. So who pushed this story? Who whispered rumors and passed out the hints? And why?
Balderdash!!!!
With Republicans it’s the seriousness of the charge!
Yeah, sure you turd polishers. Your buddies at the New York Times certainly ran the flimsy McCain affair with Vicki Iseman story.
BINGO!!
The MSM of today waits for press releases - that is their idea of investigating a story.
That they did, and that's how they think, just ask Dan Rather!
Nice camouflage Associated Propagandists. ROFLMAO! Their and your integrity as already been established. LOL!
Nice camouflage Associated Propagandists. ROFLMAO! Their and your integrity as already been established. LOL!
This might answer “who” and “why”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058861/posts?page=28#28
this is CYA BS because the internet had the story sliced and diced FOR TWO WEEKS AT LEAST.
This is reporters trying to save their jobs and cover their incompetence.
If Edwards were a Republican, the mistress would have already been interviewed on the Today show...perhaps the baby too...
‘Better to get it right even if we couldn’t get it first’
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
This AP, Right??
OBVIOUSLY that rule only applies to DEMOCRATS, because that certainly hasn’t been the case with REPUBLICANS....
I’d like to see a poll of nothing but Democrats, asking if they believed the media didn’t report this story only because it was too difficult to prove.
Just to get a base number of how many Americans I can write off automatically astotally clueless and beyond hope.
Bullcrap. Republican Senator Larry Craig.
The real story is that they didn’t want to investigate it. They didn’t want to have to deal with it. They didn’t want to take down a prominent, beautiful democrat woman.
Richard Jewell
The Duke Lacross “rapists”
The National Guard memos (AP was the news agency that forced CBS’ hand, CBS almost lost their “scoop”)
McCain’s “affair”
I call BULLSTALIN.
“Right... and if Edwards were a Republican they would’ve printed it immediately.”
Of course they would’ve, in a heartbeat!!! Interesting also that the Enquirer is becoming a leader in breaking real stories, for at least the second time recently. Although the “news media” disparages them - with all the past mega-lawsuits they’ve had, I think they’re (now) actually more responsible and trustworthy than most of the MSM when it comes to facts. I saw an interview earlier with one of their spokesmen who said they’d been researching the Edwards story for many, many months. None of the other networks had the cajones to barely mention it, much less follow up.
What about “the seriousness of the charge”?
HAHAHAHA! What a load of B.S. It's never stopped MSM before.
What's worse, despite witness, doccuments, photographs and other irrefutable evidence pointing to a truth, MSM WILL NOT PRINT a story that harms their political position.
AP’s approach: ‘Better to get it right even if we couldn’t get it first’
Oh really, is that why Dan Rather couldn’t wait to publish a memo without verifying its authenticity?
That WOULD be an informative poll.
How come they never do polls like that? Oh well. *sigh*
I think that poll, if done, would reveal that only a minority believe it, which is part of the reason I think Democrats are going to elect McCain.
The only thing really interesting will be to see if Hillary switches parties back to the party of her youth (Republican, IIRC) in order to run as McCain's VP. I wouldn't put it past the brazen critter, and wouldn't put it past her getting away with it, the way the political constellations are now. Anything can happen, yipes.
Then it would be really interesting to see who Republicans would vote for.
Corrected portion in bold.
The transparency of these mediots is truly astounding. They must really get a rush when they throw their credibility in the crapper on a daily basis.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That picture is an insult to women who wear rollers everywhere.
Meantime, did he not say he had recently grown narcissistic'? lol/ we know his narcissism has been unplugged for years! (have only to think of his 'Breck moment' per hair-combing event' caught on camera; and nothing 'recent' about that display of 'self-indulgence'. (Depends on the meaning of 'recent'. ..)
Do hope they investigate just 'who' is paying the now, 'Mother'; and from where it comes from (Campaign finance or Edward's has secret bank account?). How is all this reported per 'income tax'? We need more 'light' here; hope someone has a bright one.
Meantime, 'thanks National Enquier'. . .(sickening listening to Libs call this a 'tragedy'. Scooter Libby was a tragedy; Edwards sowed. . .and now he reaps; at least I hope he does.)
And did he have to say per these relevations of his private life; that he has now been 'beaten up and stripped bare'? /gag for sure/ Did he mean to share such personal details here? Strange choice of words, for sure. . ./double gag/
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
They can spare us the BS. The Pressholes were dragged kicking and screaming to this party.
Jokes R Us
Tell us some more fairy tales.
Edwards would have never confessed to the affair if the online community was not around. The internet is the best thing that ever happened for news - the paradigm of MSM control over the spread of information has ended.
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