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Article: News soft-pedals Hoyt scandal.(ANALYSIS)
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- The Niagara Falls Reporter (Niagara Falls, NY)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2008
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While a state Assembly investigation into a pair of tawdry extramarital affairs between state Rep. Sam Hoyt and a brace of comely young Albany interns has attracted the attention of The New York Times and other major media outlets, Hoyt's hometown paper, the Buffalo News, has focused its coverage on an alleged conspiracy involving the Internet blogger who scooped them on the story.
Last month, Buffalo political blogger Joe Illuzzi began publishing excerpts from a series of sleazy emails between the horny Hoyt, 46, and Lori Gradwell, a 19-year-old intern in the office of Rep. Teresa Sayward. The e-mails covered a period between November 2003 and January 2005, when ...