. . . to criticism of his oppo-research push on Glenn Beck in the “Media Decoder” blog at NYTimes.com:

What makes you think that we are, chronologically, at the point where “the game of oppo research on the press begins”? NewsCorp has been playing this game on me since I left its employ in 2001 (and intensely since 2005) mostly in Page Six of the (News Corp.-owned) New York Post (and 90% of what was printed hasn’t even been true). The Post printed my address once, and staked out my home later, to find out about three-figure tax disagreements I’d had with the state of California seven years previously (which had been resolved five years previously). It has written about everything from my relative sexual prowess to my agent’s disgust with my commentary after Peter Jennings’ death (only it wasn’t my agent their tipster overheard).
And Beck himself, in ‘06 or ‘07, when he was at CNN, went on the air describing things about my working style – whether I kept my door closed or open; how research copy is delivered to me; how I keep versions of my questions in my script – that could only have been obtained from a staffer or ex-staffer.
“The game of oppo research” has not only begun, it is in full flower. Read through the Post running attempt to degrade me if you doubt it.