Foreign Media Critical of U.S. Edwards Coverage

Liberal American media fails to report the news. They’re pro-Obama and pro-Edward. I don’t trust NBC,MSNBC, CNN and ABC anymore except Fox news. Fox news investigated this affair two weeks ago.

Yes the MSM has failed miserably and proven that it is definatley liberal biased to hide this from the public. This type of “conspiracy of silence” with the MSM is going to have alot of people questioning what else the MSM is keeping quiet about. They have now confirmed to the public that reports in the National Enquirer can be true. So people will now begin to wonder if all the rumors about Obama might be true and the MSM is just not reporting it. I am so thankful that I am not dependent on the MSM here in America for my news.

The Edwards’ trashy story is GOSSIP!
It is personal and private.
It affects only the families concerned.
And they have handled it.
The mainstream media was correct to leave the personal story to the bottom feeders in the gossip media.
The mainstream media is now INCORRECT to just on the ‘gossip media kill’ and pretend that it is relevant to American lives in general.
Government has to trust citizens to handle PRIVATE-PERSONAL affairs without the whole nosy nation getting consumed in people’s PRIVATE AFFAIRS!
The Edwards and the other ‘wife’ already dealt with the issue.
All Americans are doing now is to further burden Elizabeth Edwards, who is already being burdened by her cancer!

Only naive youngsters and liberal academics trust CNN, NBC, and the NY Times.

The question is not whether or not it needed to be reported before it was confirmed by others, but that there was smoke, ergo a potential story and the MSM failed to follow up on it and thus was scooped by the National Enquirer.
So you didn’t even ask the correct question, which is “why didn’t you all investigate this more thoroughly yourselves?”
The MSM can report the rumour of ‘concern’ by unnamed staffers about a theoretical affair by McCain and splash a story in the NYTs, but they totally blow off Edwards, where speculation has been running rampant in this area basically forever and he actually was having one. Yet no one is reporting on it.
To me, this isn’t about reporting gossip, but the lack of investigation on the part of the MSM. I take it as one of those ‘we really don’t want to know’ situations.
My next question is, are you going to follow the money and find out who was really paying off Hunter and where that money really came from? Does it take a total layperson to mention the possible violation of laws if campaign monies were used?
I think that it’s hilarious that this is even being offered up as a question. The MSM can hyperbolically fantasize that McCain used Antichrist imagery in a campaign ad mocking Obama’s messianic attitude and following, but Edwards somehow is off limits?
It’s all ridiculous, the average person knows it, and we can’t stop shaking our heads. Never ask why we look for our news from other sources. The American MSM is constantly censoring itself and we’re frankly tired of it. Thank God for the interent.

Edwards was told by the DNC to “come clean” or he would not have a place to speak at the convention! Since he has sort of confessed….does he now have something relevant to say? For that matter, do either of the Clinton’s have anything relevant to add?

Media coverage in the U.S. has been inconsistent. One wonders why; is it the Corporate Board influence in the news room? Is it the newer class of journalist who place comfort above sustenance? The slippage in my view has been in a lessor demanding and risk taking generation of news room editors. TV & Cable news reporting has become an entertainment industry rather than an in-depth reports, nearly all tend to be shallow and raise more questions then providing complete information. Time is money thinking and the customer is left wanting.

The media showed their true colors and failed to do their jobs. They remain biased and it shows in their reporting.Look how they pounced on the Senator from Idaho for tapping his foot in a bathroom but let this story lie fallow for 7 months until the world media forced them to report it. ABC means A always B be C covering your ass just like CBS means C can’t B be S sure.

Fox would have covered this story because they are pro McCain ,but they do not mention that McCain did the very same thing and worse to his first wife.Maybe that should be fodder for the news media especially as McCain is running for president and John wasn’t.McCains my friends is getting real old everyone knows he is no ones friend unless they have money or power or can help him in his quest for the whitehouse.I believe I read he ran twice and lost during the primaries,what does that make him???

No they did not do their jobs. Media better redeam its self and do their homework on barack before its too late.

What do they expect? IT’S CALLED DEM DAMAGE CONTROL. MOST OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS BUT AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. MEDIA HAS TO APPEAR IMPARTIAL, BUT SLANTS EVERY TIME IT CAN TOWARD THE DEMS. It’s amazing that the GOP does as well as it is doing with those kinds of odds to buck. Credit goes to the American people for seeing through the media gobbledygook!!

The MSM hasnt been doing its job for about a year, when most intelligent people in other countries knew all about Rev. Wright for example and Trinity’s conections to Mohamar Ghadafi, but the MSm didn’t report on them and mysteriously Barracl Obama didn’t know about them either. So funny when lots of people in Canada and oversees knew all about it. We’re all waiting for the MSM to either lose their credentials and just officially take money from the Obama campaign, or to do their jobs. Well the 527′s will start doing their jobs soon anyways.

The MSM had absolutely no problem whatsoever plastering stories everywhere about an invented McCain affair based completely on rumor and anonymous sources. But that’s a nice double standard the MSM has where they get to slander Republicans and cover for Democrats. Do they honestly think that Americans are so stupid as to not even notice this?!?

Angie.
As they say, money talks and BS walks. FOX IS DWARFING THE REST OF TV MEDIA IN RATINGS. REST OF MEDIA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE EQUATION – WHICH IS WHY MOST ARE LITERALLY GOING BELLY UP – LIKE NY TIMES!!!

Nice way to frame the question.
You want Edwards to confirm it before reporting on it? Or are you saying journalistically confirmed??
Get real. This story should have been reported at LEAST as a point of interest. Investigation should have been done into the people beforehand. They would easily have found Edwards supporting Rielle.
The mainstream media FAILED on this. They didn’t investigate. They let the National Enquirer for god’s sake break the story.
PS Jake Tapper, excellent interview with Richardson. One point that you let him get away with though – he said oil prices will not drop now since oil will not come online until 7-10 years. Democrats seem to universally misunderstand the markets and economics. The price impact of offshore drilling will be IMMEDIATE (arguably, already has affected prices) since markets price in future expectations NOW.

lEE LEE O7
so fox news is fair and balanced real funny first off they are in the tank for mccain, spew racisim about obama,and his wife fails to report the truth on bush and the list goes on and on worst news on tv not that im saying msnbc is any better but fox news is far from fair and balanced!!!!

Yes, the media ended up looking like fools. Some of them also look like bullies intelling their people not to even blog about it (LA Times)…
Yes, so let’s do an old story about McCain and some lobbyist with a bunch of unnamed sources, (blah, blah, blah) and put it on the FRONT PAGE right after he wins the nomination….
…but DON’T DARE cover any of this story which included cover ups, names, dates, places, witnesses, a baby, payments, etc.
Mainstream media when it comes to democrats: “Nothing to see here, let’s move along.”
Busted.

And for everyone to say that this isn’t a story because John isn’t running for anything…
Let me remind you that this story was “surfacing” last year when he WAS running for president.
So enough of that crappy excuse.

This Edwards/Media “scandal” (and yes, I consider it a media scandal too because it’s a scandal the media ignored it on purpose for partisan reasons) is a PERFECT example of just one reason I’d rather vote for republicans. Because if republicans mess up, the mainstream media is quick to investigate and expose them, so we know who is corrupt, etc. BUT if democrats mess up, the media covers for them, and God only knows which democrats are corrupt that the media won’t tell us about. Then they remain in power.
Just something to think about.

RC-Toledo,
The reason why the Edwards story is different than, say, Clinton’s is because:
1. There is a child involved, and it seems that Edwards MIGHT have been supporting that child and her mother with campaign money.
2. Edwards paid the mistress, Rielle, over 100k for a 2 minute video. Campaign contributors have the RIGHT to know if their money is being used to support a lover.
3. Edwards ran his campaign on FAMILY VALUES. With this kind of knowledge, his moral superiority is gone and he is exposed as a hypocrite (since he was so critical of Clinton’s affair).
4. He didn’t simply cheat, he cheated on his terminally ill wife. That, to me, makes him not simply a cheater – many pols are – but a despicable person.

TO: Seah- “What about Obama Lies/”
RESPONSE: What about McCain’s adultery?

It would be the right thing to do if Obama was in sync with OUR RUSSIAN NEIGHBOR for a change!
Let Don Quixote McCaint to fight the old Cold War. lol
Russia was always invaded from the West.
The French did it!
The Germans did it!
Now a bungling bush is trying to use NATO to do encircle Russia!
Why? Why? Why? FOLLY!
Russia has ALWAYS return home after turning back European attacks against Russia.
That is a good hint that Russia would rather be left alone.
IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?
Georgians follow their extremely foolish leader in a vicious CRIMINAL attack on Ossetians.
Georgian criminals need to be brought to justice.
If the ‘ancient’ people of Abkhazia and Ossetia want to go their own way, like the Czechs and Slovaks, then they should be allowed.
If dictatorial Georgians want more territory, then they should be incorporated into the Russian Federation.

The truth about the matter is simply that the media is terribly biased. The situation is so bad that it has almost become something of an abomination to criticize Obama almost anywhere. No wonder i felt a connection with that The One Ad by McCain. I am a Nigerian, living in Nigeria. And it’s like the media here just follows anything the media over in the U.S says when it’s talking about America. I know Obama is a black man, but even in the 2004 presidential election the support for Kerry was almost religious-like. I tried to understand it by watching your media, and i now understand. Your media is pro-democrat, pro-liberal, and completely anti-conservative and anti-republican.

Who cares!!! I want to know about our candidates policies..policies will affect me and my family..this is just gossip and will not affect me

You all need to answer the question if you think the media is so biased and that they should be more critical
why have none of you brought up ALL of the Mccain issues that have not been investigated like you say they should have with Edwards…(and a bunch of the bologne with Obama…that actually has had researchers ruinning around back alleys who have found nothing on him).
WHY NOT MCCAIN? hypocrites who want to spin this…the truthis Mccain has more unanswered questions and denials about those questions than obama could create in 20 years.

Sluggo
correction seems the MSM is in the tank for bush and his lies and criminal acts as well AS THE TRUTH ABOUT MCCAIN IF THE MEDIA FOCUSED ON MCCAIN AS MUCH AS OBAMA MCCAIN WOULD HAVE TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE!!!

Sluggo is absolutely correct, “The Edwards story is just another example of how the US MSM is incompetent and in the tank for left wing politicians.”
Well said! The MSM has slapped itself in the face by trying to ignore/cover up for another scumbag politician. I don’t care if John Edwards is Democrat or Republican. Wrong is wrong. End of story.

Is the MSM not investigating the $200/hr. male prostitute, John Gannon, who was posing as a press agent and throwing softball questions to Bush at his news conferences, for the same reasons? Who gave this guy clearance? Why are records sealed?

I really don’t think the “story” deserved coverage at all. Fidelity to one’s marriage vows (or the lack thereof) is a private matter between a husband and wife. It is not something to be thrown around in the press. As for Mr Edwards being a public figure, at the time of the incident, Mr. Edwards was not running for anything nor was he holding office. At this time he is not running for anything, nor is he holding office. He is effectively a private citizen again. Therefore, the incident should have been left between him and his wife.

Interesting that Drew didn’t like me calling the media TRASH TALK TIMES. Wrote as though I insulted her, when I never call the bloggers any names. Weird….