|
Article Excerpt
'WE'RE following the story," says John Drescher, executive editor of the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer. "We're doing our own reporting, and when we think we have a story, we'll put it in the paper, and if we don't get what we think is a story, we won't put it in the paper."
The "it" to which Drescher refers is the story on the Internet and a non-story pretty much everywhere else: the tabloid National Enquirer's report that John Edwards, the former Democratic presidential candidate and possible vice president or attorney general in a Democratic administration, has had an affair, and an illegitimate child, with a woman he hired to make videos for his 2008 campaign.
In a story published on its website July 22, the Enquirer described how its reporters had cornered Edwards at a Los Angeles hotel where he was visiting the woman. Even though the story had lots of details, and concerned a newsworthy figure, all the big outlets--the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the newsmagazines,...
|
|
More articles from National Review
The toughest fight: Sen. John Sununu's travails in the Granite State.(..., August 18, 2008
Communion no more: as Anglicanism's transcontinental unraveling contin..., August 18, 2008
Uribe to the rescue: Colombia's president is winning the battle for hi..., August 18, 2008
Facial politics.(the bent pin), August 18, 2008
Right from the start.(The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the R..., August 18, 2008
Looking for additional articles?
Search our database of over 3 million articles.
Looking for more in-depth information on this industry?
Search our complete database of Industry & Market reports by text, subject, publication
name or publication date.
About Goliath
Whether you're looking for sales prospects, competitive information, company
analysis or best practices in managing your organization,
Goliath can help you meet your business needs.
Our extensive business information databases empower business
professionals with both the breadth and depth of credible,
authoritative information they need to support their business
goals. Whether it be strategic planning, sales prospecting,
company research or defining management best practices -
Goliath is your leading source for accurate information.
|
|
