Is A.P. Reporter, Jennifer Peters, Another Victim of Pinch Sulzberger?
       Many began to wonder last summer when the normally fair A.P. writer in Boston, Jennifer Peters, turned into a biased advocate for Pinch Sulzberger. Now she has quietly resigned from A.P., stopped being a reporter and taken another job with the Boston Globe.
       Very few understand that the owners of the New York Times have tremendous influence over the Associated Press across the country, which has always been a co-op owned by the country’s newspapers, with the Times being the most influential paper in the country and the Sulzberger family holding important positions of power.
       When the family was casting about for some place they could send the inept young Pinch in 1976 they settled on an overseas spot in A.P. Since he couldn’t speak any foreign languages, they had to settle for the London bureau, with his inexperienced wife, Gail, being given a job at United Press (U.P.) the other prominent Press Service.
       When Pinch’s father, Punch Sulzberger wrote a letter recommending Gail for the U.P. slot, he said: “We think she is smarter than he is.” But Punch’s secretary blanched and remonstrated that he couldn’t say that. Se he deleted that from the letter. But Punch knew that Pinch had not done well in his first job --- at the newspaper of a family friend in Raleigh, North Carolina, where the editor complained that his new reporter spelled “hate,” as “h-a-i-t.” While in Raleigh, a position for Gail was arranged at A.P. there..

Was Atty. Pawlick “Mean” to Jennifer Peters?
       Inasmuch as Atty. Pawlick had known Jennifer Peters as a good, impartial reporter, he was disappointed that he had to point out that her stories were no longer impartial. Therefore, he wrote a column on Oct. 22, 2004. “Was I Mean to Jennifer Peters at A.P.?” In it, he worried whether he worried whether he was being mean to Jennifer who he had known as “an intelligent person” who had attempted to “get the story in an objective manner.”
       He then went on to point out that the big stories about the 2002 election were “never reported in this town” where Senator Birmingham said he lost his bid to become Governor because he illegally opposed the “Protection of Marriage Amendment.”
       He ended his column: “There are so many stories unreported out there that I wouldn’t know where to begin if I were at A.P. We all understand they will never be reported by the Globe because that paper is not an impartial source but the leader of the ‘gay marriage’ movement across the entire nation. But somehow, I expected more from Jennifer Peters. I guess I am naive, but I live in hope.”
       Whatever Ms. Peters has chosen to do now, we all wish her well in her new life.