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Martha Randolph Carr
Martha's Big Adventure - Enquiring Minds Want
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Martha Randolph Carr 9/4/2008
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By Martha Randolph Carr

It has been noted that some mainstream media folks have acquired a bugaboo about tabloid news and in particular, the National Enquirer. There have been some dismissive comments made in their direction lately by a few prominent editors. This is despite the Enquirer breaking the story about Clinton and the infamous blue dress in the late 90’s or the scoops out of the O. J. Simpson trial a decade earlier. Back then the Enquirer was referred to as ‘the bible’ for their coverage and other media sources were using them as a starting point to run down tips.

No one took the stories at face value. The reporters checked out the facts and built on them. That’s usually how it works. Leads come in from all kinds of places with all kinds of pedigrees attached to them. The standard for what makes it into the mainstream has more to do with what can be verified, not where it originated. If that were true a lot of big stories never would have gotten off the ground.

But lately, the Enquirer’s been getting dissed. David Perel, editor in chief at the tabloid says certain segments of the media have become very condescending. “Sometimes one of the things new media is exposing about old media is how elitist they are,”
said Perel. “We trust our readers and give them the news they want instead of the news we think they should know.”

Now, even the founding fathers realized that if we stuck to that criterion we’d end up with just celebrity news and stock prices. There has to be a balance between information about how the country’s being run and who’s dating who in Hollywood. Perhaps citizens still pick who they vote for based on looks or just party affiliation but maybe a little bit about domestic policy or foreign affairs seeps in as well.

And in the middle sometimes there’s a tabloid, like the Enquirer, which is celebrity-driven, that ends up serving a little of both. But unlike their rivals, People Magazine or Us, the Enquirer has been getting largely ignored.

The best example of this is the recent scandal involving former presidential candidate John Edwards and his affair with a member of his campaign staff while his wife is struggling with cancer.

The National Enquirer broke the story last year during Edwards’ campaign for the Democratic nomination but no other major news source outside of North Carolina, his home state, picked it up. No one even checked it out to see if there were some verifiable facts surrounding Edwards. That’s not typical journalistic behavior.

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Posted By: fencerider rob  on Thursday, September 04, 2008

Evidence of the biased MSM leaning left. This is nothing new to conservatives. But thank you for letting the libs in on it.

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