[lbo-talk] Edwards caught with mistress, love child

Gar Lipow the.typo.boy at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 11:08:10 PDT 2008


On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> I know this is a joke, but the Enquirer is accurate. It's not like the
> Weekly World News, reporting on the presidential preferences of the space
> alien.
>

Umm maybe not as bad as the WWN and has broken a few stories. It HAS lost libel suits and settled out of court also: it is pretty damn unreliable. False stories include:

Elizabeth Smart sex ring, Gary Condits wife Kate Hudson Cameron Diaz Also way back when there was the Carol Burnett story

And that does not count all the cases where people did not bother to sue or seek retractions. They won't stop at the truth if makes a good story but "accurate"? Puhleeze. They went through a period when the sought respectability, dropped in circulation, went back to not pretending not to lie and recovered.



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