Thursday, January 28, 2010
How the Enquirer Exposed the John Edwards Affair - WSJ.com
It would NOT be prudent to dismiss the National Enquirer stories out of hand.
They got this one right, and by doing so, exposed the "mainstream" media for their bias...
They got this one right, and by doing so, exposed the "mainstream" media for their bias...
David Perel, the editor in chief of the National Enquirer from 2006 to January 2009, writes in the Wall Street Journal:
"At the time, as editor in chief of the Enquirer, I directed a several-month operation with reporters and photographers on stakeout in North Carolina to nail down this scoop. We believed the photograph of Ms. Hunter, the checkable facts about her relationship with Mr. Edwards, and the in-process coverup would cause an instant public uproar as the mainstream press verified the article and demanded answers from Mr. Edwards.
But the photograph of Ms. Hunter pregnant and a slew of well-documented facts in the Enquirer article did nothing to enervate Mr. Edwards's brazen quest for power or budge the mainstream press from its comfortable seat on the campaign bus. A cursory question about the affair was eventually asked, to which a smug Mr. Edwards responded: 'tabloid trash.'
And then there was silence."
