Paper says use of Mail Online article was ‘at odds’ with its ‘journalistic standards’
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel prize-winning author, has slammed the New York Times for publishing what he called “slanderous and perfidious” gossip that, it transpired, was culled from the Daily Mail’s website.
In a letter to the editor, Vargas Llosa complained that the Times’s review of his latest book stated that he had announced his relationship with Isabel Preysler - described as “a Filipino-born Spanish socialite, model and former beauty queen known as the Pearl of Manila” - on Twitter.
“I have never had a Twitter account, and I have never posted and never will post anything on any Twitter account. I have never sold a photo or story to Hola! magazine or any other outlet in connection with any relationship or personal matter.
I am flabbergasted to learn that this kind of gossip can work its way into a respectable publication such as the Book Review.”
“Using such information is at odds with the Times’s journalistic standards, and it should not have been included in the review.”
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