politico.com - 2/6/2009
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Michael Wolff nails a media story that a colleague and I thought we might have hallucinated: How a mildly embarrasing item to media mogul Steve Rattner -- his wife's DWI arrest -- appeared and then vanished from the website of the Daily News. (It also appeared, I think, in the early edition.)
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blog.newser.com - 2/6/2009
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Steven Rattner, the former New York Times reporter
turned private equity investor, assiduously supported Hillary Clinton’s presidential...
ambitions, hoping that he would be made treasury secretary in a Clinton administration. Such hopes dashed, ...
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Would-Be Car Czar Silences Press Over DWI Wife
mediamatters.org - 2/2/2009
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The LA Times takes a cheap shot at
Dr. Jill Biden. In an article portraying Jill Biden...
- who is teaching at a community college in Virginia, though she could doubtless land a gig at Georgetown or GW if she chose - as pompous, the Los Angeles Times ...
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The LA Times takes a cheap shot at Dr. Jill Biden.
thedailybeast.com - 2/4/2009
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thedailybeast.com —
On February 1, the New York Times reopened
controversy about the Watergate scandal by publishing a page...
one story about an article submitted to but not printed by the American Historical Review that claimed Stanley Kutler, a distinguished historian of ...
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The Times Bungles Watergate
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"Where Do I Go Now?"
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... wasn’t. At least not for very long.
It is possible, of course, that the Daily News website has malfunctioned. And that the Times and the Post were asleep at the switch. And that the Rattners are the luckiest public couple in New York. Anything is possible.
It seems Rattner's is being considered for the wrong job. A guy who can get both the Times and the Post to disappear an ugly story ought to be running your communications shop.
HT: Ben Smith
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