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Magazine for Flacks Commends the New York Times for Cooperating with Flacks [Pr]
Gawker — ... . Imagine that! Earlier this week, we used New York's open records law to obtain e-mail exchanges between reporters and Eliot Spitzer's communications director during last year's hookergate fiasco a story that the Times broke. We turned up examples of Times reporters asking for permission to call sources, previewing copy for sign-off, and generally being surprisingly collaborative with a woman who was paid to manage and mislead them. In an editorial, PR Week 's response is, What's so wrong with that ? True, there are places where it seems the journalists went above and ...

Magazine for Flacks Commends the New York Times for Being So Nice to Flacks [Spitzer Files]
Gawker — ... week, we used New York's open records law to obtain email exchanges between reporters and Eliot Spitzer's communications director during last year's hookergate fiasco — a story that the Times broke. We turned up examples of Times reporters asking for permission to call sources, previewing copy for sign-off, and generally being surprisingly collaborative with a woman who was paid to manage and mislead them. In an editorial, PR Week's response is, What's so wrong with that? True, there are places where it seems the ...