{"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":"

Gawker nails it<\/a> (MSM: Keep rockin’<\/a>.):<\/p>\n

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\"\"Don’t even bother to leave a comment at the Times<\/em> local news blog suggesting a sexy patrician affair between the Senator-to-be and the publisher of the Times.<\/em><\/p>\n

It seems like a mostly legitimate question to ask, doesn’t it? Whether or not they’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

But no, no comments allowed asking about the affair. When this guy tried, the City Room editors<\/a> asked him to please not bring it up again. "we don’t report stuff like this, regardless of the people involved." Stuff like… what?<\/em> The 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":"

Gawker nails it (MSM: Keep rockin’.): Don’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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t