The John Edwards Affair: Accountability for New & Old Media?

Steve, I feel bad for the Edwards Family and wish that this whole thing had only been a smear. I feel bad for the overlooked constituecy, that Edwards spoke to and for, who lost a credible advocate with media access. I wonder if a few illicit trysts with a person he didn't even love was worth Edwards' chance at VP, AG, Supreme Court, or even President, not to mention the impact to his family?



Selfishly, I breathe a sigh of relief that Edwards was exposed before he was embraced by the Obama Campaign as running mate or in some other high profile role that could have distracted from Obama's race for the White House.



I am reminded that lack of wisdom is never overcome by intelligence.



But most of all, I am astounded at how Fox News - in its rabid desire to get the National Enquirer's Edwards story out - undermined the benefit the story would have had to the McCain campaign by not waiting until Obama had given Edwards a more integral campaign role. The revelation would have tainted Obama, by questioning his judgement at including Edwards, so forth and so on . That Fox News engaged in a premature attack and diminished its benefit to their cause is the most important takeaway from this whole affair.
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