Tuesday, June 3, 2008

June 3: What About Purdum's, Vanity Fair's Ethics?

By Sylvia Gurinsky

The focus by the political press on former President Bill Clinton's comments about an article by Todd S. Purdum for Vanity Fair is on the heat:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/us/politics/03bill.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1212638400&en=1eb8810aa368ce95&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin

I have a question about the light, though. What is Vanity Fair doing having Purdum, the husband of one of Clinton's former press secretaries, write this article? In my Journalism 101 class, I believe they called that a "Conflict of Interest."

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