Gawker (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Here's the Washington Post accidentally reporting a Congresswoman's death four hours before it actually happened. Whoops! Guess they got burned by their "Democratic source." So did the Associated...
Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
I've got a new piece up at The Guardian 's Comment is free America, " The Trashiest of Tabloids ," about a truly grim example of why the international media is in serious crisis. It's not just that tabloid journalism sucks; it's that (allegedly respectable) mainstream journalism treats it like it doesn't: Psst - did you hear? Barack Obama is having a torrid affair with George Clooney....
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
... of lies. On July 23, Edwards denied the recent allegations and called the National Enquirer story "tabloid trash." Last October, he said: "It's completely untrue, ridiculous. I've been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years and, as anybody who's been around us knows, she's an extraordinary human being, warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I have ever known....
NixGuy.com (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Filed under: John Edwards , 2008 President , Scandal , Investigations From UK's Daily Mail , this story is breaking open: Until the photograph emerged Mr Edwards, who was John Kerry's running mate in the 2004 presidential election, had managed to avoid questions about the affair. But by yesterday afternoon newspapers, television stations and websites across America were running the story - infuriating...
StarTribune.com (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
... legal action against the people who are spreading these lies.' It's not enough to say, 'That’s tabloid trash,' " Pearce said.Edwards is widely regarded as a rousing speaker, particularly on poverty, and still has as many as 19 delegates pledged to him, making him a logical choice for a high-profile convention role under normal circumstances.Convention organizers said Wednesday that...
POE News (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
NOT SO long ago Ryann Connell, an Australian journalist, happily declared he was doing his "dream job" in Japan.Since accepting police protection against incensed Japanese patriots last week, the chief editor of the English website of The Mainichi Daily News has been more circumspect.In the past month the 39-year-old has become one of the most reviled figures in Japan, where thousands of posters have...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
I'm inclined to think that the National Enquirer story is that even if it's true.
"We Have Some Planes" (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Breitbart.tv � ‘Tabloid Trash’: Edwards Slams Enquirer Account of Rendezvous With Mistress, Love Child
Media Blog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
To follow up on the quot;Tabloid Trashquot; debate over in the Corner, let me add that the only difference between the National Enquirer and the rest ... . . .
The Corner (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
I'll second that emotion. There's something about following people to hotels and standing outside the bathroom waiting that we don't need to be a part of, whoever the subject is, whatever his politics. In Laura Ingraham's Power to the People, she recalls getting a knock on her door one morning after she got back from chemo from a tabloid reporter with a question that was really no one's business. We...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Whatever the merits of the whole Edwards love child story, are we really supposed to believe that one of America's most famous trial lawyers wouldn't sue a publication that printed defamatory and slanderous lies about him? Also, it's worth pointing out that while the Enquirer may or may not scrupulous in its choice of stories -- that's in the eye of the beholder -- it is pretty scrupulous about its...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
John Edwards continued his anti-poverty tour today, a day after the National Enquirer affair/child story came out. He was in Houston today and was finally asked about it, according to this account in the alternative paper Houston Press: At a press conference, no one seemed anxious to ask about it. So we did. At first Edwards seemed to pretend not to know what we were talking about, so we specified...
WhyFame (Free subscription) | yesterday
This sounds a bit like the typical tabloid trash so take it with a grain of salt, but at the same time it’s certainly possible given the circumstances. The UK’s Now Magazine claims Angelina Jolie is having a very difficult time at home with her newborn twins Vivienne and Knox. Maddox, seven, Pax, four, Zahara, three, and Shiloh, two also demand... [ More on WhyFame.com ]
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
... - with creative licence and brain-melting alliteration - in the style of the raciest British tabloid stories.
lex icon (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... affair wasn't news , because he wasn't a candidate anymore, it hurt his sick wife, and it was just tabloid trash. He's still not a candidate, his wife is still sick, and the story is still tabloid fodder. But it became news , dinnit ? The candidate has little to complain about. Here's what John Edwards had to say last year about candidates' private lives: "I think every single...
