The corporate media’s corruption is so predictable.
Several weeks ago, when the controversy first emerged over New York Magazine correspondent Olivia Nuzzi engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a story subject — then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — I predicted how the magazine would deal with the controversy, largely by covering it up. Thus far, the magazine has followed that prediction to a T.
In so doing, however, New York Magazine revealed how corporate media betray their prejudices. In many if not most occasions, the true corruption comes not from what media figures write, but what they decide not to write.
Magazine’s Whitewash
New York Magazine’s Oct. 21 update on the controversy read in its entirety:
Last month, the magazine enlisted the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine to review Olivia Nuzzi’s work during the 2024 campaign. They reached the same conclusion as the magazine’s initial internal review of her published work, finding no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias. Nevertheless, the magazine and Nuzzi agreed that the best course forward is to part ways. Nuzzi is a uniquely talented writer and we have been proud to publish her work over her nearly eight years as our Washington Correspondent. We wish her the best.
In noting the fact that representatives for the magazine would not answer my questions about whether it would release the full results of its “independent” investigation so that readers could judge the behavior of the magazine for itself, I guessed that New York Mag would likely put
