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On the Internet, gossip lives forever.
Type the name of journalist Jeffrey Toobin into Google, and you'll get his Wikipedia entry and bios of him from the New Yorker and CNN, his two principal employers. From there, that first Google page quickly deteriorates into items about Toobin from various gossip sites. The cause: his extra-marital affair with the daughter of fellow journalist Jeff Greenfield, resulting in the fathering of a child and a whole bunch of attendant custody and support issues.
If you dig a little deeper, you find gossip much more dubiously sourced and much more personal about the man.
There are certain ironies. Toobin's career has been enhanced considerably by his analysis of lurid cases involving Michael Jackson, OJ Simpson and Bill Clinton. He has also made a minor specialty out of backstairs gossip about the Supreme Court. But he finds himself the object of gossip, often unfairly deployed by people online who think they have a political beef with him. Where does gossip start? And where does it end?
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