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As media digest the recent John McCain sex scandal allegations [0] by the New York Times, one side of the story seems destined to get ignored: one of the four co-authors took money from a liberal activist group to fund a hit piece about Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kent.) in 2006. Before becoming an investigative reporter for the Times, Pulitzer Prize winner Marilyn W. Thompson was editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky. As Howard Kurtz reported [1] in October 2006, Thompson was in the middle of what one might call a pay for play hit piece against that state's leading...

Marilyn Thompson, a 51-year-old investigative reporter and editor for The Washington Post, was named the editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader yesterday. In making the announcement, Publisher Timothy M. Kelly told newsroom staffers that he had fulfilled the promise he made in June to find an "extraordinary" editor for the newspaper. "I really do feel I have gotten the best editor I possibly can for this newspaper," Kelly said. Thompson's achievements at the Post include leading investigative teams that won two Pulitzer Prizes for public serv-ice. Last fall, she broke the story that South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond, once a leading...