in other news Aug. 13, 2007
'Daily News': Mayor's Gal Pal Is No Mere Gal Pal
Normally it takes a cop's funeral, or a fireman's funeral, or a big win by a local team, or maybe even Lindsay Lohan going to rehab, for a story to make its way to the cover of the Daily News. But today, mysteriously, the paper devotes its front page to a profile of Diana Taylor, Mayor Bloomberg's girlfriend, former State Bank superintendent, and recently appointed Hudson River Trust chief. So what new and exciting news does reporter Heidi Evans, who earlier this year won a Pulitzer for the paper with her 9/11 reporting, elicit from the city's quasi–First Lady to merit this page-one placement? Um, actually, nothing. Evans had a breakfast of "oatmeal and blueberries" with Taylor, and a side order of girl talk. The only thing we learned from the article — not that we didn't know it already — is that Diana Taylor is much too successful in her own right just be called the mayor's "Gal Pal." This is apparently big news to the paper — it's called her that at least sixteen times since 2002.
She's Not Just His 'Gal Pal' [NYDN]