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James Rainey says of Newark Patch “partnering” with Mayor Cory Booker: “It doesn’t really matter whether Patch’s executive overseer, Arianna Huffington, is merely a good friend of Mayor Booker, as she says, or had a romantic relationship with him, as others have suggested. Either way, the new journalistic arrangement looks just a little too cozy.”
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Patch’s deal with Newark mayor ‘looks just a little too cozy’
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