{"id":183377,"date":"2014-12-13T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/13\/why-does-maureen-dowd-still-have-a-job\/"},"modified":"2014-12-13T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T00:04:00","slug":"why-does-maureen-dowd-still-have-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/13\/why-does-maureen-dowd-still-have-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Maureen Dowd Still Have a Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing to ask for comment from a subject of a story, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/matthewzeitlin\/leaked-emails-reveal-maureen-dowd-promised-to-sony-execs-hus\">preclearing the story with your subject before publication<\/a> is not journalism, it&#8217;s PR:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Leaked emails from Sony suggest that New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd promised to show Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal\u2019s husband, Bernard Weinraub, \u2014 a former Times reporter \u2014 a version of a column featuring Pascal before publication. <\/p>\n<p>The end result was a column that painted Pascal in such a good light that she engaged in a round of mutual adulation with Dowd over email after its publication. It also scored Pascal points back at the studio, with Sony\u2019s then-communications-chief calling the column \u201cimpressive.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The exchanges were uncovered in a trove of Pascal\u2019s emails released as part of a massive hack on Sony carried out by the group known as \u201cGuardians of Peace.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/05\/opinion\/dowd-frozen-in-a-niche.html\">The column<\/a>, published after the Academy Awards earlier this year, lamented how \u201cOscar voters and industry top brass are still overwhelmingly white, male and middle-aged.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never understood the allure of MoDo.<\/p>\n<p>She writes about the great issues of the day like a middle schooler dissing another girl&#8217;s choice of shoes.<\/p>\n<p>I expect that her job is safe,. but I really hope that her editor cuts her a new one about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing to ask for comment from a subject of a story, but preclearing the story with your subject before publication is not journalism, it&#8217;s PR: Leaked emails from Sony suggest that New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd promised to show Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal\u2019s husband, Bernard Weinraub, \u2014 a former Times reporter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090,987,1129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-fail","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}