Scandal Mongering

<p>When the subject is scandal, you think you&rsquo;ve seen it all. But you haven&rsquo;t. That&rsquo;s one thing I&rsquo;ve learned. So, beyond the basic reporting on the scandal that enveloped New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer &ndash; led by that quintessential tabloid, The New York Times &ndash; there are many ways to think about this. TWI has already <a title="noted" id="nkwh" href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/spitzer-scandal-a">noted</a> that various American cities have their own flavor of scandal: in L.A. it&rsquo;s about water (&ldquo;Chinatown&rdquo; is civic history), in Chicago it&rsquo;s machine politics and in New York it&rsquo;s always sex. In this case, the Big Apple is what the snake offered Eve.</p>

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Today we take another <a title="bite of this apple" id="smet" href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/the-scandal-sliding">bite of this apple</a>. The woman at the center of this, Kristen, nee Ashley, somehow makes this scandal into a very British affair.</p>

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Read all about it.</p>