{"id":7714,"date":"2008-12-26T16:05:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T00:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7714"},"modified":"2008-12-26T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T00:05:21","slug":"why-no-reporting-on-the-special-relationship-between-pinch-sulzberger-and-caroline-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7714","title":{"rendered":"Why No Reporting On The Special Relationship Between Pinch Sulzberger and Caroline Kennedy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5115286\/times-city-room-will-not-mention-caroline-kennedys-special-friendship-with-pinch-sulzberger\">Gawker nails it<\/a> (MSM: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2195914\/#latedict\" class=\"\">Keep rockin&#8217;<\/a>.):<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"376\" width=\"340\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/2008\/12\/custom_1229896979217_AP03121506885_01.jpg\" \/>Don&#8217;t even bother to leave a comment at the <em>Times<\/em> local news blog suggesting a sexy patrician affair between the Senator-to-be and the publisher of the <em>Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It seems like a mostly legitimate question to ask, doesn&#8217;t it? Whether or not they&#8217;re having sexy sexy old rich scion sex, the special friendship between Sulzberger and Kennedy is well-documented. And when the publisher of your paper is BFF with a public figure, asking whether that friendship affects coverage of that public figure is certainly fair game.<\/p>\n<p>But no, no comments allowed asking about the affair. When this guy tried, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">the City Room editors<\/a> asked him to please not bring it up again. &quot;we don&#8217;t report stuff like this, regardless of the people involved.&quot; Stuff like&#8230; <em>what?<\/em> The <em>Times<\/em> certainly does report on the sexual lives of public figures, all the damn time, from Giuliani to Spitzer to Paterson. But reporting on the Sulzbergers not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gawker nails it (MSM: Keep rockin&#8217;.): Don&#8217;t even bother to leave a comment at the Times local news blog suggesting a sexy patrician affair between the Senator-to-be and the publisher of the Times. It seems like a mostly legitimate question &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7714\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,20],"tags":[32266,15044,15043,15041,15042,9151],"class_list":["post-7714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adultery","category-journalism","tag-caroline-kennedy","tag-fair-game","tag-legitimate-question","tag-pinch-sulzberger","tag-sexual-lives","tag-special-relationship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}