Kansas City Ignores John Edwards Affair

A great many political bloggers in KC are advocates above anything else . . . There's nothing wrong with that but it's a state of mind that sadly ignores juicy scandal. Unfortunately, the Kansas City media seems to be taking the same approach and that's just another example of bias.

Without a doubt, The National Enquirer caught John Edwards cheating on his wife and the story is getting a lot less play in the mainstream media than the toe tapping antics of Larry Craig.

The John Edwards love child story is no less salacious . . . Think about it, a Vice Presidential contender is cheating on a wife stricken and possibly dying of cancer. That's classic political scandal that a great deal of mainstream media in Kansas City is ignoring.

A recent post by Gawker has the best take I've read on the glaring omission so far:

It's important to keep in mind, when reading this odd answer, that traditional news media used to have something of a lock on the dissemination of information, and allowed themselves to be convinced that they had a bizarre duty to filter even accurate information of interest to their audiences, and to do so in the service of reinforcing various social institutions and norms, even though their jobs, their Constitutionally-protected jobs, were to do just the opposite, to disseminate information and challenge long-cherished moral codes.

TKC contends that this is just another example of arrogance and elitism that keeps this story off of even the Star's political blog Prime Buzz as of this posting.

In this case, it's clear that inquiring minds in Kansas City want to know more about the love child scandal and the corporate media is attempting to play gatekeeper while curiosity drives media consumers to simply get the information from some other venue.