By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-24 19:22:03 | Updated at 2024-09-30 19:34:18
6 days ago
Corrupt 'Reporters' Like Olivia Nuzzi Are Destroying Democracy
The Federalist ^ | s September 24, 2024 | Christopher Jacob
Posted on 09/24/2024 12:11:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Over this past weekend, the front page of New York Magazine’s website advertised: “Yes, the system is rigged.” They should know — their reporters are the ones doing the rigging.
The news that Olivia Nuzzi, a New York Mag reporter, was placed on leave for an inappropriate relationship goes far beyond a Beltway romance. It speaks to how the media — even as they claim to want to “stand up for democracy” — corruptly influence the political process, thereby undermining the democratic values they purport to support.
‘Inappropriate Relationship’ Belatedly Disclosed
On Thursday, New York Magazine issued a statement announcing that Nuzzi had been placed on leave because she “acknowledged to the magazine’s editors that she had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign, a violation of the magazine’s standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures. Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign.”
Nuzzi also issued her own statement claiming that “the relationship was never physical but should have been disclosed to prevent the appearance of a conflict. I deeply regret not doing so immediately and apologize to those I’ve disappointed, especially my colleagues at New York.”
Other reporting indicates that the “inappropriate relationship” was with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after a magazine profile on him that she wrote, which ran last November. Nuzzi told The New York Times that the relationship lasted from last December through last month.
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Not physical like my boot up your a** for continually lying?
2 posted on 09/24/2024 12:15:27 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Something about ‘if you’re effing the elephants you can’t report on the circus...’ from back when newspapers had a modicum of decency.
3 posted on 09/24/2024 12:17:32 PM PDT by GOPJ (Corrupt ABC referees/mods trying to throw the game to Kamala made Kamala look worse.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
What the h#ll is “the relationship was never physical but should have been disclosed to prevent the appearance of a conflict”?
Honestly, it doesn’t sound like anything anyone should be clutching pearls over.
4 posted on 09/24/2024 12:20:15 PM PDT by Fido969
To: E. Pluribus Unum
If women reporters didn’t sleep with sources there would be a lot fewer women reporters.
5 posted on 09/24/2024 12:21:44 PM PDT by babble-on
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