Now that the National Enquirer has been vindicated for revealing John Edwards’ affair last October, liberals in the media are having to explain why they ignored this story for many months.
— Noel Sheppard, Aug. 10 NewsBusters post
Tabloids Gone Wild: Palin in the Checkout Counter Crosshairs
[…]Take your change and sexist attacks on a woman we’d be heaping praise upon if she was a Democrat.
— Noel Sheppard, Sept. 3 NewsBusters post
Note that in the tabloid-cover montage that accompanies Sheppard’s post, the name of the publication with the headline “Sarah Palin’s DARK SECRETS!” has been cropped out. That’s the National Enqurier, Sheppard’s favorite publication just a few short weeks ago. It’s the ConWeb’s tabloid double standard at work.
UPDATE: Warner Todd Huston grumbles: “And the smear train rolls onward… now the National Enquirer is set to publish a front-pager claiming that Governor Sarah Palin has had a sexual affair outside of her marriage to husband Todd Palin.” But less than a month ago, Huston was defending the honor of the Enquirer and its “basically true” reporting on Edwards against “the Old Media deciding when something is officially ‘news.'”