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...know Joe Klein. Joe Klein is a friend of mine. Joe Klein is no liar--or is he? I'm just one among many to whom Newsweek's Klein denied, repeatedly and with increasing indignation, that he was Anonymous, author of Primary Colors, an unflattering novel based on the Clinton campaign. At first his denials were coy, but after New York magazine offered convincing proof in February that he was the one, Klein became adamant--and even abusive--until last Wednesday, when he was finally exposed by a handwriting analysis in the Washington Post. In fact, one of his worst...
Well, this is an extreme case of why God created editors. But in this instance, Newsweek editor Maynard Parker--the only person besides Klein's wife and agent who knew his identity--seemed to have also believed in the existence of Anonymous, who had an exemption to the Eighth Commandment. Parker now says that in February, "I warned Joe that those unequivocal statements were going to cause him trouble. It's never a good idea not to tell the truth." But Joe didn't listen--the whodunit gimmick was boosting sales--and Parker didn't insist. Instead, Parker published...
...character,'' said nbc News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert. "When they see one of us lying, it hurts everyone." Added New Yorker media columnist Ken Auletta: "The issue of cover-up became the issue. Maynard Parker allowed something to go into publication that he knew was untrue. Here's Newsweek requesting an interview with Admiral Boorda to ask him whether he had lied about the medals on his chest. We have the same right to ask questions of Newsweek, and they should own up to their mistakes...
...those who missed it, Newsweek political columnist Klein was outed last week as being the anonymous author of Primary Colors. No big deal except that he had explicitly and vehemently denied his authorship not just to the public but to his journalistic colleagues, ho ended up speculating, in print, about alternate primary suspects...
...Kevin Smith, chair of the ethics committee for the Society of Professional Journalists, on Newsweek's Joe Klein and Maynard Parker. After months of denial, Klein recently disclosed that he is the author of the political novel "Primary Colors"; Parker, the Newsweek editor who knew all along that Klein wrote the book, allowed his magazine to publish false speculation on who the author...