Is the National Enquirer’s Scoop on Edwards Pulitzer-Worthy?
To answer our own headline question: It remains to be seen whether this year's Pulitzer Prize committee members think so, but the editors at the National Enquirer apparently believe that their tabloid's coverage of John Edwards' extramarital affair has a shot at journalistic glory. They've thrown their reports on the former Democratic presidential candidate's liaison in for official consideration among the submissions for 2009.
To answer our own headline question: It remains to be seen whether this year’s Pulitzer Prize committee members think so, but the editors at the National Enquirer apparently believe that their tabloid’s coverage of John Edwards’ extramarital affair has a shot at journalistic glory. They’ve thrown their reports on the former Democratic presidential candidate’s liaison in for official consideration among the submissions for 2009. –KA
TRUTHDIG’S JOURNALISM REMAINS CLEARThe Washington Post:
“It’s clear we should be a contender for this,” Barry Levine said by phone Thursday, hours after the former presidential candidate admitted what the newspaper had been reporting all along: that he is the father of Rielle Hunter’s baby. “The National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid, was able to publish this reporting.”
[…] Although the Enquirer stories may or may not be prize-winning material — the tabloid’s most significant disclosures came in 2007 and 2008, and this year’s Pulitzers will honor material published in 2009 — there is no question that the paper scooped the rest of the media world.
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Two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards will likely be indicted by the Justice Department on charges that he violated campaign finance laws as he tried to conceal an affair with videographer Rielle Hunter, though a plea agreement is possible. (more)
On Tuesday, Elizabeth Edwards, who fought a very public battle with her husband John Edwards over his private life even as she fought cancer, died of the disease in North Carolina.
He was once counted among the Democratic Party's lineup of top presidential hopefuls for 2008, but then John Edwards met Rielle Hunter on the campaign trail, and his ensuing relationship with her (not to mention the inexhaustible efforts of the National Enquirer) changed the course of Edwards' life.
You know the drill: It all starts with the seductive glare of the klieg lights and the flashbulbs, followed by the ever-present entourage -- stylists, publicists, various hangers-on -- and the next thing you know, there's a sex tape and someone's career will never be the same as a politician, that is .
I never understood John Edwards' appeal. I therefore do not expect that Elizabeth Edwards' new book, or the tiresome media blitz accompanying its publication, will bring a sudden change in my thinking.
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