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Home Front: Culture Wars
NY Times says reporter Ali Watkins had ‘multiple' relationships with sources she covered
2018-06-25
h/t Instapundit
The New York Times is reporting that its reporter Ali Watkins, who was dating James Wolfe, a "former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer charged with lying to the FBI about his contacts with journalists," had "multiple" relationships with sources she covered:

...By August, Ms. Watkins told friends that she and Mr. Wolfe had broken up. He had been spooked by her meeting with Mr. Rambo, and was refusing to disclose their relationship to his own employers in the Senate

In the fall, Ms. Watkins started dating a different staff member from the committee. She told others that she had informed a Politico editor who did not object. But Mr. Dayspring, the Politico spokesman, said: "Politico editors were not made aware of this relationship."


...And she even shared chocolates from a different source with the newsroom!
And all this after 2 generations of "female empowerment"
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#23  Good one, BP.

It took me all day to figure it out! And I'm still only 70% sure . . . . :-)
Posted by: gorb   2018-06-25 23:55  

#22  

Bit prim and fa-la-la, but it's the Baltimore Consort, so there's that.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2018-06-25 23:40  

#21  So when we say, "Fuck the News", it's not a metaphor?
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-06-25 21:59  

#20  Almost Besoeker - hunting, not gardening
Wild Chimpanzees Exchange Meat for Sex on a Long-Term Basis
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-06-25 20:35  

#19  gardening being the oldest..

I don't know. I can easily see old Ali offering it to Chief Grunt for a better piece of the mammoth - back in the hunter-gatherer days before agriculture. :)

But I'm not a historian or anthropoligist (can't even spell it...).
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-06-25 20:00  

#18  All the news that f***s we print.
Posted by: Glinelet Speaking for Boskone9590   2018-06-25 19:50  

#17  Second oldest actually, gardening being the oldest.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-06-25 19:35  

#16  Its the Oldest Profession.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-06-25 19:33  

#15  Did she get to the 'meat' of the story?

(trying to out-snark Frank G here...)
Posted by: Raj   2018-06-25 17:56  

#14  When reality meets meme: We call them Pressitutes for a reason.
Posted by: mossomo   2018-06-25 17:19  

#13  Anything for a story. There's a name for that.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-06-25 17:12  

#12  In case someone doesn't the reference of the top pic. The guy in the middle in rugby is called a hooker. Ergo ...
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2018-06-25 17:10  

#11  I wonder what mommy and daddy, etc. think about their little girl?

Posted by: Ebbinenter Gurly-Brown3684   2018-06-25 14:30  

#10  Dunno. Pols say about lobbyists that if you cant't take their money, scr*w their women, drink their booze and still vote against them, you're in the wrong business. Maybe same logic applies to the MSM these days?
Posted by: Vortigern Wholush3392   2018-06-25 14:29  

#9  #himToo
Posted by: gorb   2018-06-25 12:03  

#8  The same people who are trying to link Trump to a much better looking pron star.
Posted by: Eohippus Sproing7694   2018-06-25 10:45  

#7  "She received input from multiple sources, sometimes without showering in-between"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-06-25 10:20  

#6  Good one, BP.
Posted by: Grunter    2018-06-25 09:08  

#5  I take IT that is NOT her typewriter she is using to take her story to PRINT???
Posted by: ranture   2018-06-25 07:51  

#4  And all this after 2 generations of "female empowerment"

...I would suggest that it worked - she felt utterly and completely empowered to throw what little remains of her profession's integrity and ethics down the toilet in order to get a story and advance herself professionally. And quite honestly, it looks like she never had a moments' doubt about what she was doing.

Boink whoever and whenever you want, Sugarplum. But when you start mixing business and pleasure, it NEVER ends well.*

Mike

*The Gods of The Copybook Headings may have to add one.
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2018-06-25 07:51  

#3  Time to get your STD panel done, talkers.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-06-25 07:20  

#2  Sounds like a graduate of a "Sparrow School".

Is this the real Russian collusion.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-06-25 07:15  

#1  


Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-06-25 06:19  

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