NPR: Foley Story Wasn't Reported, Until It Was

[NVMojo]

All Things Considered, October 6, 2006 · Months ago, several major media outlets learned about troubling e-mails Rep. Mark Foley had sent to former pages -- but they didn't feel they had enough information to go public with the story. Brian Ross of ABC News got the same information back in August -- but he found a way to crack the scandal open.

Reporters and editors at Florida's St. Petersburg Times, The Miami Herald and the Fox News Channel all say they obtained e-mails that seemed to be between Rep. Mark Foley and a former congressional page -- but that they didn't have enough to go public with the story.

The reporters sought more information.

"We verified the accuracy of the email we had," says Neil Brown, executive editor of the St Petersburg Times. "We also spoke with congressman Foley and spoke with the boy's parents. Congressman Foley told us we had misinterpreted it -- and in fact maybe a page had misinterpreted it."

And there it largely stood for nearly a year.

In August, however, ABC News got the e-mails, too. Once ABC's Brian Ross was done with anniversary specials on Hurricane Katrina and 9-11, his investigative unit turned its attention to Foley.

Ross had covered the page sex scandal that snared two congressmen back in 1983 --- and he read the e-mails a little differently.

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[Whoa_Nelly]

1. US Media: News--Convenient for us, Inconvenient for some, and

to hell with everyone else.

[tanyev]

2. Ross deserves big credit for sticking with this story until he

got more info. 20 minutes from phone call to resignation--wow! There must be more still to come.

[NVMojo]

3. I saw more perps in the House or sex was had in person ...

[Wilber_Stool]

6. That's the real question.

Why did they tell him to quit and run away? Gops do what they're told. They don't make up their own minds.

[seabeyond]

4. proof isnt dem oct surprise,.... was out well before nov election

just news media chose not to air it, when it would have been well before nov election. and one of those media outlets was fox

[Doctor_J]

5. So Hastert was aided and abetted in the cover-up by the GOP

media whores. What a shock! :eyes: