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."....
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I think the MSM outlets are just pissed that a tabloid mag like the National Enquirer actually scooped them on this story.
Gee, the New York Times had no trouble printing stories about a non-existent affair between McCain and some lady . . . .
Nope... *I* think that they were deliberately ignoring this story, to advance their agenda in some way...
the infowarrior
This lovely lady nails the MSM on the Edwards fiasco here.
They had no such problems accusing McCain of cheating on Cindy just months ago.
Now that there's funny, I don't care who you are.
The Moron Media is swimming in a river of BS...good luck!
msnbc is so full of crap.
So who's left? Maybe someone with old connections to the gossip tabloid? And Edward's comment about all the glory going to his head? Is that a hint to Obama that this excuse has been used and won't work?
Usually dems can boink anything that moves - and the press says, "it's just about sex".
Why are they treating Edwards like he's a Republican? Kennedy's woman died in a submerged car and the press didn't care.
Clinton possible raped a woman and the press didn't care. Larry Fylny offer a million to anyone who would dish out dirt on congresscritters - and had to tell the truth that he was only after Republicans - and legions of women came forward about dems - and wanted their money.
Something doesn't add up here...
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