Part one of term paper
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. Bush practices hypocrisy in his refusal to disclose his self described, “young and irresponsibl ...

Part two of term paper
... failure to disclose can’t square with his position that whether he used drugs is irrelevant to his candidacy.” He claims that because Bush was instrumental in expanding the list of crimes for which juveniles 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 ...