Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald Didn't Think His Paper Should Have Mentioned the Sarah Palin-Glen Rice Hookup
By Jason McIntyre
In a fascinating email exchange obtained by Random Pixels, Salguero wondered why his paper was running with the story. I implore you to read the entire email thread between Salguero and his colleagues. This should whet your appetite:
"Do we know this story to be TRUE? Are we certain it is TRUE because we’ve done the work or have a reasonable certainty that is TRUE? Did anyone actually try to confirm this story before giving it Herald front page credibility? Did anyone call Glenn Rice to get independent confirmation? He lives in Miami, you know. Is it now OK to repeat any “report” from the National Enquirer on the front page of the Herald’s website without actually reporting even one fact independently? … If this Rice story, unconfirmed and unreported by us, can be published on our site, do the alien stories not meet the same standards? These, by the way, are my questions relative to journalism. But there are other things at play here. The Herald, like it or not, admit it or not, is widely viewed as a liberal newspaper. Palin is a conservative. So we put this story on our website and conservatives that read us ask why The Herald didn’t report the stories of President Obama being gay in 2007 and 2008? Those stories were in the Globe, a competitor to the Enquirer. The allegations were brought by the person who said he had a drug-crazed, gay affair with the President … I remember when the Herald broke the Gary Hart affair story. I’ve been proud to work at a paper that did that kind of work. But this cutting and pasting and unprincipled gossiping we’re doing on this National Enquirer story is a journalistic embarrassment at best and comparative agenda writing at worst."
Salguero makes plenty of solid points about the erosion of journalism standards … except that, you know, Glen Rice copped to the hookup. The Miami New Times claims that Salguero is a huge Palin fan, and even defended her in a column that somehow managed to mention Jennifer Lopez, Palin and the Miami Dolphins.
Previously: Glen Rice Said His Hookup With Sarah Palin Was “Respectful” and She Was a “Sweetheart”
Previously: Book Claim: Sarah Palin Hooked Up With Glen Rice in 1987, When He Played For Michigan