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Stuart Taylor’s recent article entitled “Why the Story Matters,” published in Newsweek Magazine on August 30, 1999, makes an attempt to support tabloid journalism in the name of good democratic process. His premise that candidate George W. Bus ....

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... as young as fourteen can be tried and imprisoned as adults in Texas provides strong journalistic justification for confronting any drug use in Bush’s past. He uses James Madison’s writing in the Federalist Papers to support his position, specifically, “one of the Constitution’s safeguards against oppressive measures is that Congress can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of society.” He reasons, therefore, that Bush’s possible confession that he used cocaine when he was young should force him, his supporters and the rest of us to do some hard thinking. W ...