Still No US Media Reports About Edwards' Affair

The Sunday Times of London takes up the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter affair story:

The National Enquirer may publish photographs corroborating Edwards’s presence at the hotel this weekend. A reporter for The Washington Post said yesterday: “To be quite honest, we’re waiting to see the pictures. That said, Edwards is no longer an elected official and he is not running for office now. Don’t expect wall-to-wall coverage.”

No, why would we expect "wall-to-wall" coverage of a former Senator and two-time presidential candidate caught in an affair while his cancer-stricken wife stays at home and suffers? The media ran with a story about John McCain's supposed indiscretions with no sources but this story with witnesses and numerous sources gets no play at all.

We've come to expect this from the American media and they could get away with it until the last few years but no more. How incredibly sad that the National Enquirer is now a more credible news source than the NY Times and Washington Post? Read the blockquote above: The WaPo admits that even if they see pictures of Silky with his hand the cookie jar, they aren't going to run it on the front page regardless of the news worthiness.

This is pure and simple collusion by the media that would ignite a fire storm and congressional hearings were it to happen in, say, the oil or tobacco industries. The political left screams for the return of the Fairness Doctrine yet when they have the opportunity--and I would say duty--to report a hard news story about a liberal, they balk.

The slow decline of American media continues apace with steady and precipitous declines in ad revenue. They blame the Internet, Craig's List, etc, but all they have to do is look over the pond to Britain and see that newspapers can thrive if they choose to either play fair or at least admit their collective bias and write from that angle.

Lastly, this is the type of story that Americans can't get enough of. It has all the components that draw readers as I can attest by the hits I've received from people Googling "Edwards Affair" or some other search terms akin to that. It has a high-profile politico, an ill, loyal wife, a pretty mistress, a love child, late-night rendevous' and a presidential race. You couldn't make it up.

If I were a shareholder of the NY Times or WaPo, I'd be screaming for them to start covering this story and do it "wall-to-wall" because it would bring in much-needed revenue. Instead, ideology once again trumps profits and that my friends is the left-wing media in a microcosm.