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...suddenly front-paged some old allegations about past extramarital activities by Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, the media-crowned Democratic front runner. And thus, with a heartfelt squeamishness that outsiders will find hard to credit, the American press takes up some unfinished business from four years ago: deciding what to publish about presidential candidates' private lives...
Question One is simple, in theory. Sexual allegations should meet the same standard of proof as allegations on any other subject. By their nature, sexual allegations are often furtive and hard to prove. That is a perfectly good reason not to publish them...
Obviously, if there was general agreement among the voters that a candidate's sexual history is politically irrelevant, it would not matter much to candidates what the New York Post chose to publish about their sexual histories, or even whether or not what the Post published was true. What makes this subject so thorny for politicians and journalists alike is precisely that they fear it is political dynamite and will indeed affect how people vote. And if people wish to vote against a candidate because he has cheated on his wife (even if his wife doesn't care...
...Crimson even has the guts to publish this, it will be but the first step. The collaborators must be brought to justice, and the power elite will be brought to their knees. To ensure that others do not meet the fate of "Grunwald," to search for truth, to fight to retake what was taken from us on January 15, 1992; these are what America is all about...
Those of us in the business of putting words and pictures on paper are frequently reminded of the strong reactions that readers have to the stories we publish. A story in TIME might prompt a reader to fire off a letter to our editors, call a Congressman or, in the case of Paul LaBell, do something astonishing and profound. A New York City print publisher, LaBell makes his living surrounded by images meant to stir the emotions. But that didn't prepare him for photographer Michael Springer's picture of starving Sudanese in our Dec. 5, 1988, issue...