A recent post on Gawker complained about what it called The New York Times showing former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's “flacks' extraordinary deference as the scandal unfolded” last year.
Using public records, the blog posted e-mails between Spitzer's communications director Christine Anderson and reporters covering his dalliances as Client No. 9. Though the Times broke the story, Gawker accuses the paper of having too cozy of a relationship with PR professionals. True, there are places where it seems the journalists ...