Criticism of Mayer
After the publication of Mayer's article on the Koch brothers, she became the recipient of significant criticism from the right. At the Gawker website, Hamilton Nolan wrote that Mayer had “apparently become the victim of a disturbing, organized smear campaign.” At the New York Post, Keith J. Kelly asked: “Who is behind the apparently concerted campaign to smear The New Yorker's Jane Mayer?”
In 2006, right-wing media in the Washington, D.C. area sought to use a conflict with a neighboring family to paint Mayer and Hamilton in a bad light. After complaints by them and other neighbors, a judge ruled that a house next to Mayer and Hamilton would have to be torn down because it was “seven feet too close to the street and two feet too close” to Mayer and Hamilton's house. Later, a second judge overruled the earlier ruling and said that the home would not need to be torn down.
Read more about this topic: Jane Mayer
Famous quotes containing the words criticism and/or mayer:
“When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“I had a long day’s work, starting at eight in the morning and ending after nine at night, but in those days [we] ... did not think of our day in terms of hours. We liked our work, we were proud to do it well, and I am afraid that we were very, very happy.”
—Louie Mayer (b. c. 1914)