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der sloot was the person breaking the news by printing it in that paper in that ad. in this back and forth between mitt romney s national finance co-chair and his lawyers, we do have some news to break which is that he is apologizing. i have the statement right here. joining us for the interview is peter zuckerman. he has a new book called buried in the sky. thank you for joining us. let me read you this statement. i m a strong supporter of the argument that gay and lesbian people this is the wrong statement. we ve got it here. here we go. quote. we believe that he s a good man who did a poor job reporting the facts on an important story in
they had known about it and kept them in the organization and facilitated their further access to kids. it was a brutal and disturbing investigation that went right at the most powerful pillars of that community. for that reporting, the howard foundation awarded the newspaper their award for distinguished service to the first amendment. the reporter on the story, a young man named peter zuckerman won. they recognize the best journalists under the age of 35. part of the response to that reporting from that little newspaper in idaho falls was this. as you can see it s sort of typeset to make it look like it was part of the newspaper but this is an ad. it was a full page ad run by frank van der sloot, now a national finance co-chair of the romney campaign. the ad was placed to criticize the newspaper for running the story. it and others like it were published in the newspaper that aired it in the first place.
not quite like this. i ve never had somebody run paid ads in the newspaper i m working at as trying to discredit me as a person. peter zuckerman. i will say as way of thanking you for being here is you have a new book coming out. it is called buried in the sky. it has nothing to do with the subject but congratulations on that. thank you. i worked very hard. i appreciate it. we invited frank van der sloot to join us a number of times, he declined. he did speak with members of my stap off the record, but would not agree to speak on the record or come on the air. mr. van der sloot provided us one other statement regarding his involvement in the homo sexual ads. you can find it posted at our blog. mr. van der sloot, if you are
2005. the entire community was buzzing about mr. zuckerman s sexual orientation after a local radio talk show had talked about it for days. we came to his defense. i apologize for any personal pain because of our involvement. that was not our intent. that statement ended with an apology. there is a lot in that. let me ask your reaction to that first. wow. it s a start. it doesn t ring true to my experience. what was the impact in your life when he ran the full page ads in your newspaper in idaho talking about the fact that you were gay and attacking your reporting? there was a tremendous impact on me personally and professionally. personally, it was really hard when my boyfriend, at the time,