How Did Edwards Affair Stay Hidden? [Scandal]

and digging into his relationship with Rielle Hunter before busting him spending the night in a hotel with the woman and his alleged love child. It was impressive and quintessential tabloid work. But there's no reason the paper should have had the scandal all to itself. Isn't this the sort of thing traditional newspaper tabs like the Post used to cover? And even starchy broadsheets should have had some interest — it was the Miami Herald that busted Gary Hart in 1988 (when his mistress left his townhouse — shades of the Edwards affair) and the Times that broke the story of Eliot Spitzer's whoring earlier this year. Newsweek's Michael Isikoff had the initial dirt on Monica Lewinsky a decade ago. With Edwards, the media had a full nine months to get the goods on the Democratic presidential candidate/VP hopeful, following and... [read full story]