John Kerry Sex Scandal: U.S. Media Blackout?
February 13, 2004
According to news reports across the Internet and in various international publications, Democratic Presidential front-runner John Kerry may have had an extramarital affair with a 22-year old blonde intern.
As first reported by the Drudge Report on Thursday, a full-scale investigation into this is underway at Time Magazine, ABC News, the Washington Post, the Hill, and the Associated Press.
But the real story today may be the lack of coverage of this story by the American news media.
According to a story published today in MensNewsDaily.com, "A source at one of the major television networks (said) that they are specifically forbidden to talk about (the Kerry sex scandal) on the air until one of the other major television networks reports on it first."
A quick search on Google News at this hour shows only one major U.S. newspaper is running an active story on the emerging Kerry sex scandal. A Chicago-Sun Times story apparently posted to Google News overnight has mysteriously disappeared.
Yesterday, MensNewsDaily.com (MND) posted a brief story on the Kerry sex scandal, but the story was never index by Google News. The last time Google News failed to index and MND news item was when MND published the name of Kobe Bryant's accuser.
Internationally, the Kerry sex scandal story has been covered by the UK Sun, the UK Telegraph, various Australian papers.
The New York Times today published a piece defending Kerry against Republican attacks, declaring "the beginning of what party officials said would be an attempt to undercut Mr. Kerry's reputation at a time when he is riding high from repeated victories in primaries and caucuses." The Times piece did not mention the sex scandal by name.
According to an exclusive report released overnight by political gossip guru Matt Drudge, Kerry is preparing a response to the groundswell of questions surrounding this developing story.
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