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WARTS AND ALL: NEWS
ORGANIZATIONS STRUGGLE
WITH THE WORD ‘SLUTBAG’
AST WEEK, the exemplar of politesse that
is the Anthony Weiner
mayoral campaign took
a turn that we should have perhaps
expected, when his communications director, Barbara Morgan,
blasted one-time Weiner internturned-scoop purveyor Olivia
L
Nuzzi with a litany of eye-popping
obscenities. Morgan made these
remarks to TPM reporter Hunter
Walker, after Nuzzi’s insider-look
at the Weiner campaign made the
cover of the New York Daily News.
As often is the case when a string
of newsmaking vulgarities come
stumbling into our lives, newspapers covering the story were faced
with the challenge of presenting
the remarks to their readerships
New York
City mayoral
candidate
Anthony
Weiner
admitted last
month to
sending lewd
texts and
photographs
to a woman
after
resigning
from
Congress.