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Wednesday November 29, 2000; 11:06 PM ET
Washington Post Probing Katherine Harris Sex Rumor
The Washington Post, which deep-sixed its Paula Jones exclusive
in 1994 because editors claimed the story wasn't solid enough, is
now digging for sexual dirt on Florida Secretary of State
Katherine Harris.
On Nov. 22 Neal Travis, gossip columnist for the New York Post,
reported, "I hear that some major magazines - and I don't mean
the tabloids - are delving deeply into what, if any, relationship
exists between Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his secretary of
state, Katherine Harris."
Now the New York Observer's Ron Rosenbaum says insiders at the
New York Times are "buzzing" over a rumor about Harris' private
life. In this week's edition, he notes one cryptically written
sentence in a Nov. 20 Times report about the woman who certified
the presidential election for George W. Bush on Sunday:
"She is reviled by some as Gov. Jeb Bush's ignorant puppet
(actually, far more unflattering terms have been used) and
heralded by others as an icon of grace and courage."
Rosenbaum adds, "The rumor - which I'm told is now being
investigated by the Washington Post and other newspapers and
newsweeklies - [remains] buried in those parentheses for now,
except to add this item from Neal Travis' Nov. 22 column. ..."
The Washington Post clearly has it in for Ms. Harris, allowing
its style reporter to savage her in a notorious profile 10 days
ago that claimed her makeup reflected an inability to do her job.
The media's interest in rumors about Harris' private life seem
based on little more than its intense dislike of her. Reporters
and editors undoubtedly view her as someone whose steadfastness
cost the candidate they endorsed, Al Gore, the presidency.
What's more, the elite media's full-bore pursuit of prurient
details in Harris' background seems even more hypocritical in
light of journalists' tepid treatment of even the most famous
Clinton sex scandals.
Paula Jones. Michael Isikoff, then with the Washington Post,
secured exclusive rights to her story for a period of three
months in February 1994. Though Isikoff had the facts dead to
rights, the Post declined to publish until Jones filed her sexual
harassment lawsuit, well after the paper's exclusive had lapsed.
Four years later, the Jones case resulted in the first
impeachment of an elected president in American history.
Monica Lewinsky. Once again, Isikoff had the exclusive. But when
his new employer Newsweek (Isikoff left the Post over the Jones
debacle) delayed publication, cyberjournalist Matt Drudge broke
what would become the story of the decade.
Juanita Broaddrick. The Washington Post interviewed the Clinton
rape accuser months before the the Wall Street Journal actually
published the first print interview in which Broaddrick detailed
her attack. But once again, the Post sat on the story.
The New York Times covered Broaddrick's rape charge in a single
report buried deep in the paper's inside pages. The Times story
turned out to be less of a hard news report than an explanation
of why Times editors didn't want to cover the story.
Now the Times, the Washington Post and the major newsweeklies
are "buzzing" about Harris' sex life?
You can bet the first inking they get of anything untoward about
the heroic Florida official will wind up on their front pages.
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