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Article: Will Dee Dee Make Vanity Unfair?; Ex-Clinton Aide Hired For Campaign Coverage
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- The Washington Post
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- May 4, 1995
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Four months after stepping down as President Clinton's press
secretary, Dee Dee Myers was hired by Vanity Fair yesterday to "help
direct the magazine's political coverage going into the 1996
elections."
Myers, who will be Washington editor and also will write stories,
is a veteran Democratic spokeswoman who has flacked for Michael
Dukakis, Walter Mondale and former Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley. She
has no previous experience in journalism.
"It's about as proper as for me to be managing editor of CBS
News," said Republican political consultant Mike Murphy. "It debases
Vanity Fair's claim to be anything other than a polemical magazine.
They should put a big disclaimer on it: `Paid for by the ...