The Secret History of John Edwards

‘WE’RE following the story,” says John Drescher, executive editor of the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer. “We’re doing our own reporting, and when we think we have a story, we’ll put it in the paper, and if we don’t get what we think is a story, we won’t put it in the paper.”

The “it” to which Drescher refers is the story on the Internet and a non-story pretty much everywhere else: the tabloid National Enquirer’s report that John Edwards, the former Democratic presidential candidate and possible vice president or attorney general in a Democratic administration, has had an affair, and an illegitimate child, with a woman he hired to make videos for his 2008 campaign.

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Byron York

Byron York is a former White House correspondent for National Review.

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‘WE’RE following the story,” says John Drescher, executive editor of the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer. “We’re doing our own reporting, and when we think we have a story, we’ll put it in the paper, and if we don’t get what we think is a story, we won’t put it in the paper.”

The “it” to which Drescher refers is the story on the Internet and a non-story pretty much everywhere else: the tabloid National Enquirer’s report that John Edwards, the former Democratic presidential candidate and possible vice president or attorney general in a Democratic administration, has had an affair, and an illegitimate child, with a woman he hired to make videos for his 2008 campaign.