“Relative advantages”

This is non-sense: “The NE is doing what all competitive organizations do: it’s exploiting its relative advantages.” The Enquirer and the Times are not “competitive organizations” when it comes to public affairs reporting. Their aims are different (titillation versus service), and they don’t shared the same fundamental practices (paying sources versus not).

Also: can someone please tell me what public interest was served by breaking the Edwards scandal? The man was already out of the presidential race when the big confirming scoops came. He was a has-been. It’d be like Nixon or Clinton or Spitzer getting busted AFTER leaving office. It’s interesting, but not really gonna impact the public good.

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