Word: margolick
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...Francisco bureau chief David Margolick, who is covering the case for the Times, wrote two articles in December about courtroom wrangles over a sheriff's deputy who claims to have overheard remarks Simpson made in a jailhouse conversation with former Los Angeles Rams lineman Roosevelt Grier, who is now a minister. Although the deputy was not permitted to state in court what he had heard, Margolick decided to quote the only previously published account of the remarks -- from the Dec. 20 issue of the Enquirer. "Simpson exclaimed, 'I did it!' " Margolick wrote, adding that "The Enquirer stands by its article...
...Margolick defended his action by saying the Enquirer has had an accurate record on the O.J. case and that he left it to his readers to assess the veracity of the Enquirer's anonymous sources. But other journalists were outraged, though many newspapers and broadcasters repeated the disputed remark in the process of reporting the flap. "I can tell you I am far more offended by the New York Times' reliance on Enquirer reporting than I am by the Enquirer," says Jim Newton, who is covering the O.J. trial for the Los Angeles Times. Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein...