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Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Cathy Young responds. "With
all due respect, I don't believe the
two situations are
comparable at all. Surely it is not uncommon for public figures who
have been 'savaged' in an article to challenge the accuracy of the
report. The dispute, as I understand, was Glass's word against
Jacobson's. Moreover, Howard Kurtz quotes Michael Kelly as saying:
'Jacobson accused Glass and the New Republic of shilling for
Procter & Gamble.... It seemed to me then, and seems to me now,
an utterly irresponsible and baseless charge. He did not have any
right to accuse the magazine of something that serious without any
evidence.... This was completely separate from whether Glass was a
fiction writer.'
"Blair, on the other hand, was the
subject of internal complaints within the New York Times
itself."
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
