Yeah, you could see this covering for Reps

From Byron York, charting the Edwards’ camp’s amazement that the media let him skate as long as it did:

In July 2008, the [National Enquirer] published a detailed account of Edwards’ visit with Hunter and the baby at a Los Angeles hotel. “Andrew, they caught me,” a tearful Edwards is quoted as telling Young in a phone conversation. “It’s all over.”

Surely now, Young thought, the press would jump on the story. But it didn’t happen, at least not quickly. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the broadcast networks and the cable news outlets — none reported the story.

An explosive scandal had been kept out of the press for months at a time when the man at the center of it was an important player in national politics. Why? Young thought it was because the Edwards camp so tightly controlled information that journalists weren’t able to find sources to corroborate the Enquirer’s reporting. Perhaps that was part of it. But the fact was, many editors and reporters just didn’t want to tell the story.
Read the rest: http://bigjournalism.com/mwalsh/2010/02/03/the-john-edwards-story-the-msm-was-first-to-know-last-to-tell-you/