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And what "role" did former New York Times reporter
Kurt Eichenwald think he was playing when he sent the check? asks
Jack Shafer. "
Justin Berry's rescuer? Was he posing as a customer? Or was he buying his way into a potential source's good graces? When did Times editors learn of the complicated transaction? Would they have published the story if they had known about it?" The "loan" revelation "provides
Byron Calame with his last big chance to redeem his lumbering term as New York Times public editor," says Shafer.
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He should've disclosed paying Berry long before NYT did it for him (MW)
