Jamal Awil

← Doppelganger

A journalist's falsehoods can damage her partner's credibility [connection]

After the bathroom incident, though, I started paying closer attention to what Wolf was doing, newly aware that some of it was blowing back on me. And it kept getting weirder. After police across the United States cleared the parks and plazas of Occupy encampments, she wrote a piece claiming, without any evidence, that the orders had come directly from Congress and Barack Obama's White House. … It was an out-of-body feeling. I went back and took a closer look at the articles about her evening-wear arrest, and a line in The Guardian jumped out at me: "Her partner, the film producer Avram Ludwig, was also arrested."

XREF: Connects to the broader theme of how intimate partners' public conduct reflects on each other, and how fact-checking a figure's claims can reveal their personal entanglements.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 53