Hmmm. Post ombudsman Deborah Howell wasn't impressed by John Solomon's debut story in the Post either.

From her internal Post blog, reprinted at FishbowlDC ...

More than a dozen readers, both inside the newsroom and outside, were troubled by the John Edwards story on Page today. So was I. Most complainers thought that the story either wasn't worth a story or wasn't worth fronting or both. It was interesting enough to make an item in In the Loop, but not Page 1. I kept looking for the graf that would tell me that the buyers had some history with Edwards, that they were big campaign contributors, that there was some quid pro quo. Nada.

Ouch.