Caroline Kennedy Is Really Out This Time. For Reals

from NYT story (0.00 / 0)

Ms. Kennedy declined to be interviewed.

But of course...

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by: NYCO @ Thu Jan 22, 2009 at 12:50:34 PM UTC

I wonder (4.00 / 3)

Who's going to stop the Peter King juggernaut now?

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by: Exile on Ericsson St. @ Thu Jan 22, 2009 at 14:32:23 PM UTC

nice one. (0.00 / 0)

i needed that.

TODAY is day one. It always is.

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by: phillip anderson @ Thu Jan 22, 2009 at 14:35:30 PM UTC

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My personal speculation: she discovered she was the wrong person for the job (4.00 / 1)

I worked as an Internet and editorial consultant for George magazine back in the mid-90s when it first launched. I got to know John Kennedy and discovered over two-years time and found that he was an extremely privileged and sheltered individual (this isn't a knock against him personally, it's just the reality of his social status and upbringing). It was almost like he was an alien visiting from another planet; he didn't even know how to use a can opener and he had never set foot in a Sears store until we needed something for a small emergency when we were in San Diego. It also took him some time to realize that publishing a magazine is a tough and time consuming job and most people in the industry work late hours, it's not a glamorous life. After a while, he ceased being a hands-on editor.  

If Caroline is anything like her brother, I believe that her dropping out has less to do with the media criticism of her, I think she discovered that she really didn't have a good basis to relate to most New Yorkers and that this job was not what she thought it would be.  

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by: cliffweathers @ Thu Jan 22, 2009 at 16:23:49 PM UTC