From ABC News:

A University of North Carolina professor said Friday that John Edwards’ campaign demanded that he pull a student reporter’s television story that focused on the upscale location of the campaign’s headquarters.

C.A. “Charlie” Tuggle, an associate professor at the school, said the Edwards campaign contacted the reporter, second-year master’s degree student Carla Babb, asking for a video of her report to be removed from the Internet. When that failed, the campaign demanded in three calls to Tuggle that the TV story be killed, he said.

So how bad for the campaign was the video? Nowhere near as bad as the fallout it will create on the Internet. See Babb’s video below:

By attempting to censor the story the Edwards camp has now given ammunition to journalists online and off to attack not only the presentation of the story but the meat and potatoes, further evidence that Edwards lives lavish but tries to hide it.

I doubt it will become a national obsession but it goes to show that the Edwards camp and running effective media campaigns don’t seem to mix.

Read about it in the blogosphere at Captain’s Quarters, Pirate’s Cove, New York Times, American Pundit, Prez Vid