Clint Eastwood is not saying that Atlanta Journal reporter Kathy Scruggs traded sex for new stories.
He’s saying that she was a whore.
This is entirely accurate. And she was not alone.
Kathy Scruggs was and will always be a disgrace to journalism and humanity. Just like all the people who are rushing to defend her now.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, she’s got nothing on David Sanger or Michael Gordon. But it is what it is.
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