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Late Breaks Enquirer To Msm Youre Welcome

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Aug 08 2008 5:24pm EDT

Late Breaks: 'Enquirer' to MSM: You're Welcome

-Now that John Edwards is on record admitting he had an affair (to Bob Woodruff of ABC News), the mainstream media can finally drop its pretense of moral squeamishness and wallow in the scandal, as it has so desperately longed to do all along. [ABC News]

-Random House has canceled a book about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride, A'isha. Somehow it got the crazy idea that some Muslim extremists might not take to such a book kindly. [Reuters]

-A Texas alternative weekly that ran plagiarized stories from Slate, Rolling Stone and other publications has shut down. [Houston Press via Romenesko]. □

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