John Edwards and the death of mainstream media
By Rob Tornoe
John Edwards admission that he lied and dismissed reports of an affair with Rielle Hunter, a filmmaker hired to cover his presidential campaign, may have ended his public life, but did it also signify an end to the era in which the mainstream media controlled the agenda for national political journalism?
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..and Gov. Chris Gregoire is caught in the crossfire.
Bill O'Reilly, Dec 2:
Keith Olbermann, Dec 3: >
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I repeatedly emailed the New
I repeatedly emailed the New York Times in the last two weeks as to why they weren't covering the story and never got an answer. I also posed this question in the comment section on their Caucus blogs and they would never print my comments.
They're hypocrites over there. Have they forgotten that they once did a story praising the Enquirer for their reporting on the OJ Simpson story ?
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