23 July 2008 117 views  Print  Email This

Updated: I wish it were another news agency that “confirmed” this.

I never read tabloid stuff so this is the first I’ve heard of this, the more I think about it, who would care anyway?  Even if it’s not true, it’s too funny.

The John Edwards-Rielle Hunter episodes highlight what is, increasingly, a clear case of dereliction of duty in the Mainstream press.

The media mavens at all the old places people used to turn to for news (Time, Newsweek, NY Times, CNN, CBS, etc.) are not only silent, they have–and are–aggressively protecting John Edwards from any PR fallout of his affair with Rielle Hunter.

ALSO at DBKP:
Over 35 stories on then John Edwards-Rielle Hunter story:

To paraphrase the age-old question, “If a scandal breaks and the Mainstream Media doesn’t report it, does anyone hear about it?”

The answer these days, is “Yes”–thanks to the Internet. Bloggers are the favorite whipping boy of major media apologists in academia–most who spend their time flacking for former employers and castigating the Blogosphere as “irresponsible”.

What label should be applied to news organizations who, during the Edwards affair, have strict observance of omerta would have made any Mafia chieftain proud?

Would “irresponsible” be appropriate?

Snipped from Death by 1000 Papercuts, all the juice is there.

I have a question that I haven’t seen asked yet.  Edwards is a wealthy successful crook lawyer.  He couldn’t get the level of lady playmate as Spitzer?  He couldn’t do better?

By the way, wait for the Obama, “that’s not the John I knew” press brief soon.

UPDATE: Hotel Guard Confirms Edwards Encounter