The supermarket tabloid is in the running to win a Pulitzer prize. What does that tell approximately the state of the US media?
Hadley Freeman: My adore affair with the Enquirer
In pictures: National Enquirer front pagesIn August 2008,during a brief summer lull between Barack Obama's clinching of the Democratic presidential nomination and the first time most people heard the name "Sarah Palin", John Edwards made a confession. The former senator, or his own bid for the White House long dead,smiled ingratiatingly at an ABC News interviewer and admitted that he had cheated on his wife with a film-maker and campaign hanger-on named Rielle Hunter. "I told Elizabeth approximately the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, or asked God for his forgiveness," Edwards said.
And what of the claim – made repeatedly in the National Enquirer magazine over the previous year (which had now obtained a blurred photo), but reported nearly nowhere in the traditional news media that he had fathered a daughter with Hunter? Leaning forward earnestly, and as whether to emphasise his point,Edwards was firm: "Not genuine," he said. "Published in a supermarket tabloid."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com