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The nuances of how the issue was handled varied, but the gut response almost everyplace was much the same as at ABC. Journalists privately questioned whether Clinton's sex life was relevant, whether Flowers was credible, whether it was fair to scrutinize one candidate's private life more closely than...
The flip side of this female ideal is that while lips and breasts should be full, the rest of the body is inevitably too fat. The nearanorexic demands made on models and actresses are well known. What is less discussed, and more relevant for most of us, is that similar...
Musings on this ripe topic often muddle three distinct questions: First, what level of proof is required of stories about marital infidelity? Second, should such stories be suppressed, even if provably true, out of respect for the candidate's privacy? And third, are past extramarital affairs (to take the meat...
But why should such stories be published even if they are true? The question here is not whether past sexual adventures are relevant to a candidate's fitness for office. That's Question Three. Question Two is who gets to decide Question Three. And the answer is: the voters, not...
So the proper test for the journalist is not whether he thinks the information is politically relevant, but whether he thinks it would be politically relevant to a significant number of voters. Obviously this isn't an exact science. My own sense is that the current line is somewhere between...