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Edwards scandal: a half-baked scoop

By Mark Obbie

I'm not trying to obsess about Ted Frank, despite our little scuffle earlier this week. But when I saw this item on the fallout from the John Edwards adultery story, I couldn't hold back. This ought to be framed and hung on the wall of every journalism school. The title: The Difference Between Journalism and Agenda-Driven Blogging. If I am reading this correctly, Frank has committed several grievous errors in his rush to publish, and he's speculating about bribery or other skullduggery without a shred of proof. If he were a reporter working for me, I would applaud his reporting thus far, but advise him that he's not even close to being ready to write a story. Keep working at it, Ted. And meanwhile, let Overlawyered know it had better alert its libel carrier on this one.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).