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...Times survey was conceived before the Miami Herald broke the news about Gary Hart's dalliance with Donna Rice, but it has become part of the debate about how far the press should go in reporting the private lives of public officials. Republican Candidate Pat Robertson flatly turned Whitney down, pointing out that he was "not applying for employment at the New York Times." Democratic Front Runner Jesse Jackson charged last week that the Times had not distinguished between what is public and what is private. Earlier, a Jackson aide had attempted to rally fellow Democratic candidates to reject...
...Miami Herald's stories about Gary Hart and Miami Model Donna Rice provoked intense debate about how far the press should go in reporting about the private lives of public officials. Last week brought the first clear sign that a new epoch is indeed aborning: the Cleveland Plain Dealer drew on unnamed sources to report that two-term Ohio Governor Richard F. Celeste, 49, has been "romantically linked" to three women other than his wife of 25 years, Dagmar. In the ensuing tempest, the Plain Dealer argued that the expose was justified because Democrat Celeste, although not a presidential candidate...
What the Miami Herald did was despicable. Freedom of the press has got out of hand. Its power to intimidate and destroy is frightening...
Respectable American papers scorn the sleazy Fleet Street practice of entrapping prominent Brits in love nests. So when the respectable Miami Herald tailed Hart and his friend, it angered Columnist A.M. Rosenthal, until recently the top editor of the New York Times. He indignantly wrote, "I did not become a newspaperman to hide outside a politician's house trying to find out whether he was in bed with somebody." When it comes to scandal, the New York Times is up above the world so high. Its readers must have been puzzled to read that Hart's reputation as a womanizer...
...Hart story, it was frequently argued in editorials, was not sex, it was character. There have been acres of speculation, some of it good and some of it mere psychobabble, about his will to self-destruct. But the question of privacy invaded remains. Why was the Miami Herald in such a hurry that it could not even wait to check its facts properly? And what right did Reporter Paul Taylor of the Washington Post have to ask Hart at that televised press conference, "Have you ever committed adultery?" To such a question, said Columnist William Safire, the proper answer...