She shielded herself from reporters'questions, and she raised the eyebrows of her professional colleagues when _ as sexual harassment allegations broke last week against her husband _ she turned away inquiries, calling the stories " gutter journalism ."
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Verso has published blurbs accusing its own author, Alexander Cockburn, of setting a " new standard of gutter journalism, " and excoriating another author, Andy McSmith, as " biased, ill-informed, malicious and unpleasant ."
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The damage being done in this era of attack politics and gutter journalism is to the fragile fabric of governance that consists of the ability of people with opposing views to compromise; it's how the big things get done, and each time something like the Foster fiasco happens that vital task become more difficult.
