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MSM tend to pick up stories from the Enquirer with tongs
"Reliable Sources" | New York Times
New York Times columnist David Carr says the National Enquirer "did a wonderful job" with its John Edwards reporting, but mainstream news orgs "tend to pick up stories from the National Enquirer with tongs." He notes that the supermarket tabloid has "been very right about some things -- O.J. they got right, Jesse Jackson's child they got right. But there's been some misses, too, so it's a little scary to follow on those stories, and it's also a little scary for big outfits to step up on a story like this." || More Carr: "The mainstream media mostly passed on the story. But the public would not let go."
> "New media really helped keep this story alive," says Enquirer editor
> Keller: I'm not going to recycle Enquirer's anonymously sourced story
> Kurtz: News orgs with standards looked clueless by ignoring the story
> "If there's any conspiracy here on the part of MSM, it's one of caution"
> Politico tried to confirm the story independently, but it was difficult
> Raleigh paper's readers comment on restrained Edwards coverage
> Charlotte editor: "I wasn't put off by it being in the National Enquirer"
> Dan Kennedy: Media should have pursued Edwards affair story last fall
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