{"id":344312,"date":"2010-02-20T19:36:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T00:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=93896"},"modified":"2010-02-20T19:36:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T00:36:24","slug":"the-national-enquirer-up-for-pulitzer-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/344312","title":{"rendered":"The National Enquirer Up For Pulitzer Prize?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The National Enquirer<\/em> &#8212; the supermarket tabloid celebs love to loathe &#8212; 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&#8217;s most prestigious award, a Pulitzer Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Has the world gone mad?<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" id=\"Redlasso\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.redlasso.com\/redlasso_player_b1b_deploy.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"embedId=bf0b1bb0-1509-4029-a3b1-152f1782e6ab&#038;pid=undefined\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/player.redlasso.com\/redlasso_player_b1b_deploy.swf\" flashvars=\"embedId=bf0b1bb0-1509-4029-a3b1-152f1782e6ab&#038;pid=undefined\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" name=\"Redlasso\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-93896\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Enquirer<\/em> thinks it should be up for Pulitzer for its reporting on the Edwards scandal &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We&#8217;ll see what happens,&#8221; Enquirer<\/em> executive editor Barry Levine <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/national-enquirer-now-legit-pulitzer-prize-board\/story?id=9887329\">said<\/a> on Friday.<em> &#8220;We want to see now that the Pulitzer people review our submission and we expect, obviously, that there&#8217;s going to be tremendous competition in the investigative category and in the national reporting category.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Enquirer&#8217;s<\/em> staff is eligible for the Pulitzer in the categories of &#8220;Investigative Reporting&#8221; and &#8220;National News Reporting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rdA6kj3aPlPmeSLZZRtCnQuIXOk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rdA6kj3aPlPmeSLZZRtCnQuIXOk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rdA6kj3aPlPmeSLZZRtCnQuIXOk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rdA6kj3aPlPmeSLZZRtCnQuIXOk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Enquirer &#8212; the supermarket tabloid celebs love to loathe &#8212; 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&#8217;s most prestigious award, a Pulitzer Prize. Has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}