Having decided that we could not verify this story, we were ready to run with it nonetheless. But suddenly, we were struck by a twinge of generosity. It was clear that whoever did actually run the story of Henry Hyde's adulterous relationship would get an enviable publicity bump, which might help a publication that, for example, is hoping to make an IPO sometime in the future. In the end, we decided we'd be more interested in covering a new media stock offering than a decades-old roll in the hay.