The
Raleigh News & Observer followed up on its
promise to look into the alleged extramarital activities of former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) – sort of.
The newspaper
told readers on July 31 that Edwards, in Washington for an AARP Foundation symposium on poverty and aging, avoided all press questions. Edwards previously said only that the
National Enquirer, which
claimed to catch him red-handed at a Los Angeles hotel visiting an alleged paramour, was “tabloid trash.”
Meanwhile, the
Durham Herald Sun’s former editorial page editor
urges the North Carolina press to further investigate, and
Enquirer editor John Perel
tells Radar Online: “No one will dictate the time table for when we release our unpublished material. We’ve been setting the agenda, and will continue doing so.”