Pultizer Prize for the National Enquirer, Whose Your Daddy?

The national media used to be called the fourth estate because it provided a much needed check on the three branches of government. What has happened with the election of Barack Obama? He is a wonderful man and a gifted speaker but the lack of institutional cynicism coming from the news reporters is sorely missed not only as a challenge to unsupported claims, but also to fine tune arguments to help get the message out. The give and take, back and forth is good for democracy.
You know when you have a timeline and certain points are highlighted as significant to the subject matter of the timeline, well I think we might of just had one of those events on the timeline of the demise of 20th century media. The National Enquirer has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.
One of my biggest issues with this award is that it is VERY much deserved and the National Enquirer should win, although with the bias in the media world, that they will win is doubtful. But they were nominated and that should be a wake up call to all those national newspapers and reporters out there that just fall in line and follow each other over the cliffs like lemmings. The National Enquirer followed the story from beginning to end. All of the other media outlets dismissed the story as unworthy of them. The Enquirer's reporters kept after it, digging and researching, like real reporters are suppose to do. The spoon feeding has domesticated the reporter corp to the point they think they are dependent on the government for their survival.
After years of denials and dead ends the newspaper was vindicated when the truth came out.....John Edwards was the baby's daddy after all. The Enquirer had it right from the beginning.