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Characterizing tom feedler's reporting as faulty and irresponsible. for a while, the dam would hold. >> for about 36 to 48 hours, it is possible to believe that this is going to blow over and in fact, for days the hart team is winning. most of the media was revialed by what the herald was done. >> there was a big debate over the miami herald story, was it reasonable, was it fair, i was not convinced that it was journalistcally ethical. >> i sensed that the rules were being changed willy-nilly right around me as i was sitting at the computer righting these stories. >> there is a thin line betwe...

Expected to appear momentarily at a denver hotel room where he is expected to withdraw from the presidential race. >> there he is. >> there is lee hart and gary hart. >> now, clearly, under the present circumstance, this campaign cannot go on. i refuse to submit my family and my friends and innocent people and myself to further rumors and gossip. it is simply an intolerable situation. >> less than a week after his story broke in the million herald, tom feedler watched what his reporting had wrought. >> the newsroom outside the executive editor's office, they were also watching it on the tvs, t...

Wronged this man and so clearly a correction has got to be in order. >> no correction was coming. not in the new age of endless news. >> cable news had to fill a 24 hour news hole and they did it by talking about the same thing over and over again. >> and they discovered what the audience loved. >> i am operating on two hours of sleep. >> what people wanted to know is who is this woman and what was their relationship? they wanted the tabloid details as filthily as possible. >> i think the first day, we didn't know her name but we quickly found out who she was. >> okay, guys. please. >> she too...

How are ya'll doing? >> the other part of me was startled that if he had not made that decision, this was a very dangerous thing to say. >> suggestive stories continued to appear in the national press some noting that hart and his wife lee had separated twice. tom feedler of the miami herald objected to the sketchy reporting in a column published in 1987. >> my column was essentially saying this is not good journalism. this is troublesome. when we are focusing so much of our attention on what at this point is an unsubstantiated claim. >> on the same day the column appeared, he got a call in hi...

Life is sacrosanct or run down the anonymous tip? >> i felt in some way personally invested now in pursuing this further. because hart told me face to face that there was nothing to these rumors and at that point, i'm thinking, he looked me in the eye, and lied to me. and i am not going to just let that go right now. >> still in the dark, as to the identities of the caller and the mysterious woman she claimed would spend the weekend with hart in washington, d.c., feedler asked the herald's best investigative reporter, jim mcgee, to take a photographer, fly up to the capitol, and stake out hart...