RE: The Enquirer was spot on with John Edwards and Palin has more enemies in the media that he ever did
The Village Voice said it best -— The only cred the Enquirer has, especially when it comes to political affairs, is left over from the John Edwards and Rielle Hunter nonsense, which to be fair, they owned months before any legitimate media outlet. But by now, with countless miscues in between, that should be wearing thin, especially considering it’s the same publication that pushed a Barack Obama affair only to retract the report right away. How long can we really hold out hope that nailing Edwards was a savvy act of journalism that could be repeated and not a broken clock being right? (Though that is supposed to happen twice a day...)
The bottom line is that Sarah Palin moves units: viral videos, Dancing With the Stars, Fox News and, apparently, on the newsstand too. It’s a perfect time to have her on the cover, no matter the coverage.
There really wasn't any savvy journalism in the Edwards story. The only thing they had that the mainstream media didn't was the willingness to print it. Everybody knew it, but he was a Democrat, so it was deemed not news.
Here in New Jersey, it was like the "shocking news conference" when Jim McGreevey announced he was gay. Every single journalist in that room knew he was gay. Just about everybody in the state who followed politics at all knew he was gay. It was even openly discussed that he gave his boyfriend the Homeland Security job. I posted about it on this website months before it was "in the news." The media just chose not to report it because of his party.
So I'll give the NE credit for reporting the Edwards story, since nobody else would. But they don't have real journalists. They read their emails and report what comes in as news, if it'll sell. They don't fact check. They don't really care if its true or not. And they don't even care what your politics are. "Bush Drunk!" "Biden Drunk!" "Todd Palin Affair! Barrack Obama Affair!" Just buy the paper.