The National Enquirer — the supermarket tabloid celebs love to loathe — shocked the political world in 2009 when the publication actually got something right for once and blew the lid off the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter Lovechild Sex Scandal. Now the coup could earn the tawdry tab literature’s most prestigious award, a Pulitzer Prize.
Has the world gone mad?
The Enquirer thinks it should be up for Pulitzer for its reporting on the Edwards scandal — which hit headlines when it was discovered that the former presidential candidate cheated on his terminally-ill wife and fathered a child with his former campaign videographer, Hunter.
“We’ll see what happens,” Enquirer executive editor Barry Levine said on Friday. “We want to see now that the Pulitzer people review our submission and we expect, obviously, that there’s going to be tremendous competition in the investigative category and in the national reporting category.”
The Enquirer’s staff is eligible for the Pulitzer in the categories of “Investigative Reporting” and “National News Reporting.”