[Cicero]

"A source at one of the major television networks (said) that they are specifically forbidden to talk about (the Kerry sex scandal) on the air until one of the other major television networks reports on it first."

An unnamed source at an unnamed network who doesn't dare risk being identified for fear of being fired. Wasn't there a time when news reporters would do just about anything to break a major news story first, rather than second?

It used to be called a scoop. The last major scoop was achieved by Matt Drudge, precisely because Newsweak spiked Issikoff's story.

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I seem to recall seeing the story about a burglary at the Dem HQ and thinking that this was it for Nixon. The election will be thrown into chaos. Then nothing. Will they never learn?

[Criminal Number 18F]

because Newsweak spiked Issikoff's story

Which Newsweek did in that case, precisely why the press in general is helping to bury the Kerry scandal: it is fully committed to the victory of its political party and will pay any price, bear any burden, report any lie, suppress any truth to ensure the survival and success of the Democratic nominee.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F