We re beginning to wonder whether Y2K Cassandras simply got their dates wrong. Have a good summer. Like it or not, you must give credit where it s due. The National Enquirer is now a major player in our mainstream political press. First, it broke the news of Jesse Jackson s, er, wandering eye and the foundation money that went to support the resulting child.
Journalistic standards require citation of a story s source.
The New York Times , the Washington Post , the wire services, CBS, CNN, everybody. Everybody except the Los Angeles Times , that is. Their belated acknowledgment came in a brief sidebar buried at the bottom of an inside page. Plainly, Times people were ticked. They had been proud of their own investigative disclosures about the Carlos Vignali commutation.