Is The National Enquirer‘s John Edwards Work Pulitzer Prize-Worthy?

by Joe Coscarelli | 3:14 pm, January 11th, 2010

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That’s the provocative claim (the web loves reactions — and clicks!) made in Emily Miller‘s column for Politics Daily, entitled “Does the National Enquirer Deserve a Pulitzer for Breaking the John Edwards Scandal?” Well, Ms. Miller, what does the paper deserve?

“I believe the time has come for us to recognize the Enquirer’s political investigative reporting,” she writes, fairly.

Though I don’t know the other nominees for the 2009 investigative category (the deadline isn’t until February), and I’m sure there are many worthy entries, it’s clear to me that the Enquirer deserves consideration for what remains the highest honor in American journalism.

With the press overflow well on for 2008 campaign memoir Game Change, and an Edwards-specific excerpt in this week’s New York, the Rielle Hunter/baby daddy is back with an adulterous vengeance — just in time for journalism’s award season.

And as Miller writes: “Despite the legwork reporting done by the National Enquirer, there’s little evidence that any of the reporters covering the Edwards campaign were interested in ascertaining if the accusations were true,” so maybe it is a time to teach that status quo Washington press corp what’s what. In this particularly egregious example, they were scooped for nearly a year, Miller argues.

Sure, it sounds link-baiting, but Miller’s argument isn’t as crazy as it sounds and her analysis and background are trenchant — deserving of a full read and legitimate consideration. “The TV networks and many print outlets have dismantled or cut back their investigative teams,” she writes, “while the Enquirer continues to incur the expense of putting reporters on months-long stakeouts and paying them to literally knock on doors in search of sources.”

Why not give them a nod of recognition?

Does the National Enquirer Deserve a Pulitzer for Breaking the John Edwards Scandal? [Politics Daily]

http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Varrick/1170421091 Chuck Varrick

The Edwards affair was well known long before the National Enquirer piece. Wasn’t it funny when Elizabeth Edwards put on that act that she didn’t know it was going on? Her shocked amused me as I followed this story very closely. It’s another example in the long line of examples that shows the lamestream media instinct to protect a liberal zombie politician. John Boy Edwards is just another example of a liberal zombie saying do as I say and not as I do.

And how many of us thought Elizabeth Edwards was dying of cancer? It is a Miraculous recovery or total sham of a story to garner sympathy votes? To me it looks like the latter. That is pathetic and I have to say Karma is going to bite these two very hard in the back end at some point in their miserable lives. Imagine shacking up with a man who cheats on you when you’re supposedly dying of cancer. Never mind that he can’t wait until you’re in the ground, he cheats on you now. This isn’t a matter of choice or a private moment, this is not even a man in my definition running for the highest office in the land wanting to be our leader w/out ethics or morals.

As far as I’m concerned, the National Enquirer Deserve a Pulitzer for Breaking the John Edwards Scandal in the same way that obama deserved a Nobel Peace Prize. The National Enquirer is also the tabloid who first broke the story of Rev. Jesse Jackson and his Love Child way back when. When a supermarket tabloid is breaking political stories like these you quickly find out why Time and NewsWeak are faltering magazines soon to go out of business. Once proud bastions of the truth they now have become partisan pieces of crap.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Varrick/1170421091 Chuck Varrick

By the way just do a search on Lisa Druck. She is also well known as a woman by the name of Rielle Hunter. If you read her story, she followed Edwards around everywhere he went. She had her sites on him because she knew the Misses was allegedly dying of cancer. Gotta hand it to her, she’s more intelligent than John Boy himself. And when you read about her it shows that John Boy sure knows how to pick em!

From the Daily News; The woman behind the John Edwards scandal has a wild past of sex and drugs so legendary her escapades were chronicled by novelist Jay McInerney. Before moving to Los Angeles and beginning a career as a film producer, Rielle Hunter, 42, was known as Lisa Druck, a New York City party girl.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/08/08/2008-08-08_john_edwards_former_babe_inspired_lusty_-3.html#ixzz0cPSKQ3QP

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/show_business/edwards_videographer_reille_hunter_aka_lisa_druck_dated_jay_mcinerney_68874.asp

http://bigheaddc.com/2007/10/11/rielle-hunter-aka-lisa-druck-contact-us/
CL

If the affair was well known, why wasn’t it reported by ANYONE other than the National Enquirer? If others reported the story, please list sources. The National Enquirer actually DID something: investigated & reported the story when others didn’t or wouldn’t, thus deserving to be considered for the Pulitzer, while Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize seemingly for what he might do in the future.
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