In the end, Mr. Hersh syndicated the stories himself, and won a Pulitzer Prize for his efforts. (Yes, Mr. Hersh, the reporter’s reporter, had a stint on the public-relations side of the game.) “The stuff did little for McCarthy, so he said, but it did much more for Brown,” Mr. Hersh writes. A spokesman for Mr. Brown, contacted for this article, called the anecdote “a complete and total fabrication.” Mr. Hersh shrugged off the denial. “omg … why is he making a big deal of it?” Mr. Hersh wrote in an email.

Source: New York Times June 03, 2018 22:33 UTC