Fierce MSM competition to see who can sit on a story for longer:

Romenesko:

Reflections of a Newsosaur | Charlotte Observer | TV Barn

Alan Mutter says the mainstream media “look foolishly out of touch by continuing to remain silent about the allegation that John Edwards fathered the girl recently born to a former campaign aide.” || Aaron Barnhart: “The Enquirer, along with my employer, McClatchy, is actually working the story, while most of the MSM claims to be keeping its hands clean.”

Kaus is still hot on the trail, of course. Yesterday, he quoted Kinsley [e.a.]:

the MSM told a story about Edwards—they told it often and loud—it was probably one of the best-known and totally accepted stories of the 2008 campaign: John loyally standing by his loyal wife as she deals with cancer. If the story isn’t true, they should run a correction. My god, look at the things they run corrections over—the spelling of people’s names, and so on. Yet they’re leaving this huge story uncorrected, and leaving their readers misinformed.

Kinsley is shocked, shocked that his formerly respected and respectable colleagues who are running the MSM show don’t bother to correct the record (which they establish to begin with, using showbiz techniques)

There’s rather a more pointed critique from across the Pond:

Indeed.

If the MSM is hiding this obvious story, what else are they hiding?

Stuff that actually matters, that’s what!

And that is why it’s important for them to report the distasteful stuff, too—in order to win our trust that they will report, as the NY Times once prided itself on doing,

Without Fear or Favor

That ethos for journalists—to report the truth—was a long time coming. Now it’s a long time gone.