Absolutely. The Enquirer was robbed: While the rest of the journalism world was sleeping, says Emily Miller in The Washington Times, the National Enquirer shouldered the "expense of running a top-notch" investigation that ultimately brought to light the Edwards sex scandal. The Enquirer has won some hard-earned respect — for itself and all "nontraditional...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/02/01/national-enquirer-deserves-a-pulitzer-however-the-enquirer-got-the-story-edwards-scandal-was-the-truth/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';Inside an office on Columbia University’s campus, the Pulitzer Prize staff is sorting through the stacks of submissions postmarked by Monday. One of the packages is a FedEx box containing a black three-ring notebook. The screams heard from inside the ivy-walled, ivory-towered building will let us know that the panel members have read the...
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url='http://www.emilymillerdc.com/2010/01/19/does-the-national-enquirer-deserve-a-pulitzer-for-breaking-the-john-edwards-scandal/';size='small';username='@EmilyMillerDC';During the 2008 presidential campaign, the paper was literally on Edwards’ heels, reporting as early as late 2007 that Edwards was having an affair and his mistress was pregnant. Edwards only defense was to call the Enquirer “tabloid trash,” which was enough to stop mainstream media outlets from further investigating the photo-documented reports. Riveting new...
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