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Editor Defends Philadelphia Magazine, Calls Andy Reid Interview 'A Collaboration'
Published 12/28/2007 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
... Philadelphia Magazine has gotten a lot of publicity and has no doubt sold a lot of copies, but it has also faced criticism in journalism circles for allowing the Reids to read the interview and suggest changes prior to publication, a practice that is almost universally frowned upon among journalists. Joe Guckin of Outsports is one of the many journalists who has cried foul. ...

That Andy Reid ‘Exclusive?’ Kinda Not.
Published 12/28/2007 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... : Andy Reid and his wife told the mag the harrowing tale of how their kids went awry and ended up in jail. The story got massive pickup. Except … Philly Mag didn’t “get” the story, so much as they wrote a story and let the Reid family look it over before going to print. In many circles (read: all) this is not known as journalism. So if you’d really like to know what happened in that “ ...