![]() ![]() This time, however, some conservatives refused to play along. But in today's overheated media environment, the publication of a book often provides an easy hook for sneaking lurid allegations into the mainstream press. Was it true? Who cares? It was between hard covers.Ī decade or so ago, most news organizations shied away from salacious charges that seemed to have little substantiation. Thus, when former FBI agent Gary Aldrich charged in his book "Unlimited Access" that the president was slipping out for late-night trysts at the downtown Marriott, the conservative Washington Times and Rupert Murdoch's New York Post quickly weighed in with front-page headlines. Whether the charges surface in a British newspaper, a book by Gennifer Flowers or on the Internet, they echo around the world at supersonic speed. Some in the conservative press have been all too happy to trumpet any damaging allegation about the First Family, no matter how thinly documented, on grounds that someone, somewhere, has published it. ![]() ![]() When George Will and David Brock helped discredit a former FBI agent's book about the Clintons last week, it may have marked a turning point for the unsubstantiated gossip industry. ![]()
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