Categorized | Politics as Usual, Sanctimony

Media Double Standards

Why is it that when a second-rate televangelist you’ve never heard of cheats on his wife, the media give it tons of coverage – but the media are totally disinterested when the sanctimonious trial lawyer (and former Senator) John Edwards cheats on his wife (indeed, a Los Angeles Times editor tried to enforce a cover-up)?  Mickey Kaus wonders why this double standard exists, and rebuts the rationalizations given for it by media flacks and others.



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