Monday, August 18, 2008

McClatchy editor: John Edwards lied to me

The News & Observer's executive editor John Drescher tells it like it is in his column this week: John Edwards called him last fall and flat-out lied about his affair.
Edwards told me that the allegations were not true.

He said The N&O was the paper that arrived on his doorstep every day, the one read by friends of him and his wife, Elizabeth.

He said he'd never called before to complain or state his case. Given Elizabeth's health -- she has cancer -- he said it was especially important to him that the story not run in The N&O.


Read the whole column here.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fortunately, somebody kept after the story until it got the story. Unfortunately, that somebody was not the N&O.

Anonymous said...

in the N&O's defense it's hard to keep your eye on the ball when every couple of days you lose a member of the team. that combined with more staff cuts coming AND a salary freeze....well mcclatchy will get what they paid for... diminished returns and less breaking the big story epics. reporters are peddling as fast as they can but it's all uphill with the current marching orders from (mis)management. the real story which mcclatchy papers should be working on is how wonder boy gary pruett in one fell swoop has destroyed a once proud and profitable newspaper entity. I'd like to read that......

Anonymous said...

The ball was being dropped before the cuts started happening.

Anonymous said...

Howard, can't you ban that guy? The obnoxious, all lower case guy who can't punctuate, spells Pruitt "Pruett" and hates McClatchy. The rest of us are not uniformly thrilled with you or what's happening with our newspapers. But we're on the same team as you, and we have a lot at stake. Lower Case Guy is just a twerp.

Well, whatever.

Old joke: How do you know when a politician is lying? His lips move.

Anonymous said...

the truth is out there and it's in lower case. hey maybe I like spelling the great bumbler's name wrong. lighten up

Anonymous said...

Well, you banned John Edwards' story...might as well ban it all. Look, nobody blames your paper for having a heart when Edwards asked you to back off. You got lied to. Now, if Edwards broke any laws, then you can redeem yourself. Just follow the money.

Anonymous said...

I’ve often heard various folks comment on how wonderfully varied, complex and diverse the English language is, effortlessly welcoming foreign words and phrases ‘into the fold’. The depth of our language is sometimes described as a ‘bottomless reservoir’ of nuance.

I agreed with that sentiment, but no longer, thanks to John Edwards. I’ve been struggling the last two weeks for words to describe exactly how much of a douchebag he really is. And sadly, for the first time I find my native tongue wanting. The adjectives simply aren’t ‘there’ to accurately describe how much of a manipulative, calculating, reprehensible, scumbag, liar, phony, narcissistic, empty-suit, jackass he really is.

See that? My best effort to ‘capture’ the fundamental essence of John Edwards rings completely hollow, like calling the Grand Canyon a ‘really big ravine’. I would otherwise be embarrassed by my linguistic impotence, but I really don’t think it’s my fault. He has simply re-defined the boundaries of douche-baggery, shattering the power of words to define him. It is, in wierd sort of way, a mark of greatness. A legacy, if you will.

Anonymous said...

On another topic, how about Anchorage's rooting out of Ted Steven's corruption! Good thing they got him out of there 20 years ago when they had that can-do editor up there. Oh, wait ...

Anonymous said...

"If your mother says she loves you, check it out."

Didn't that come up in Journalism 101 in school?

Anonymous said...

Anom1120...that guy from Anchorage is on life support.......brain death is a horrible thing.