It's Sunday morning and keeping with my routine, I get up make coffee, get back in bed with my cup of the Bean in hand and begin to sort through the weekend paper (NY & LA Times). I have this funny thing I like to do, I take out all the inserts from retailers, ridding myself of what I think is excess noisey paper, unnecessary for my reading pleasure. I then put the sections in the order in which I like to read them. I'm sure you know at this point where I like to begin, the Style section.

I begin with the NY Times Style section and I come upon this article "If Peter Orszag is So Smart, What Will He Do Now?", about our nation's White House Director of Management and Business. Based on the title I know it has not a thing to do with Men's style, fashion, dressing, zilch, nada, zero, NOTHING! But then I look at the picture accompanying the article and think surely, this was just a bad title choice by the author or editor and it must have something to do with the pretty stylish woman standing next to him, their style as a couple, or something of the sort. I begin to read, and find out how he's Washington's answer to nerd chic, that he has groupies, a website dedicated to him and that even President Obama has made reference to his being popular with the ladies. Not so bad, right?

Well, guess what, this is nothing more than a gossip piece on Orszag being a "Player" and I'm talking the "Tiger/Letterman" kind. I guess the NY Times couldn't figure out where to put this Pulitzer Prize winning piece of material and the only place to mask a gossip story as a fashion feature is in the Style section. Oh, I'm sorry they did mention how he's made "Nerd Chic" muy popular in the Obama Era of politics", my sarcassim oozing here.  I for one am annoyed at it's placement as it negates the legitimate fashion journalism I respect the NY Times for. Things like this have a clear place where they belong (NY Post Page Six, Perez Hilton, TMZ, etc). In my opinion this seemed more like a commentary on his being a womanizer than his geek chic. What the NY Times should have done was titled the so called style piece, "Powerful Men and Fidelity, So Last Year"! Now that's a style trend, don't you think?

Do you think this article blurs the lines between being a legitimate fashion or gossip story? Please post your comments below.