Back up a minute.
I said the articles first came out in the fall of 1998.
From the source you cited, the DNA was not even studied until 2000.
There is no question that the media trumpeted the alleged Sally Hemings affair with TJ to help Clinton in 1998, before any definitive proof was even presented.
That was the subject of my last post.
Actually, the New York Times covered this via Fawn Brodie in 1974.
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/thomas-jefferson%E2%80%99s-unknown-grandchildren
A 1998 DNA study found that a male descendant of Eston Hemings Jefferson matched the rare Y-chromosome of the Jefferson male line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Beverly_Pearson#cite_note-Foster-10