What happened that made President Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky OK to write about it?
It was a different era then. The sexual revolution changed this country. The world changed. Men changed. Women changed. We’re not a static people. We grow; we change. To imagine that you would think as people thought in 1920, 1940, 1950 — that’s ridiculous. We have different standards now. Sex in the oval office is a story. (In the days when private lives weren’t written about), reporters saw a lot of senators come on the floor drunk, and they wouldn’t write about it because they didn’t feel it had an impact. Now it’s different. Even if you think they have a private life, someone’s going to write it. And then you have to write it. Q: Did the press go too far covering Monica Lewinsky? I don’t think so. Not when it becomes a matter of impeachment. Q: Have you ever been afraid while reporting — like when you were dragged by the Soviet KGB? A: I wasn’t afraid. I was just mad I was going to miss the story (of President Ronald Reagan visiting a Moscow shopping mall. The KGB saw a security
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