Criticism of Mayer
After the publication of Mayer's article on the Koch brothers, she became the recipient of significant criticism from the right. At the Gawker website, Hamilton Nolan wrote that Mayer had “apparently become the victim of a disturbing, organized smear campaign.” At the New York Post, Keith J. Kelly asked: “Who is behind the apparently concerted campaign to smear The New Yorker's Jane Mayer?”
In 2006, right-wing media in the Washington, D.C. area sought to use a conflict with a neighboring family to paint Mayer and Hamilton in a bad light. After complaints by them and other neighbors, a judge ruled that a house next to Mayer and Hamilton would have to be torn down because it was “seven feet too close to the street and two feet too close” to Mayer and Hamilton's house. Later, a second judge overruled the earlier ruling and said that the home would not need to be torn down.
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