In 1998 the two-man newsroom broke the story of President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, juicy details of the Oval Office rendezvous, and the explosive fact that Newsweek had axed the scoop, all from three time zones away. It was a double whammy: the potential undoing of a Democratic president as well as incontrovertible proof of liberal media complicity, a supposed conspiracy at the highest levels.
