Vol. 75/No. 30      August 22, 2011

The article “Explosion of ‘interns’ is attack on wages, solidarity” by Seth Galinsky in the July 25 Militant quoted Roger Hodge, a former editor of Harper’s magazine, from an issue of Bookforum. Hodge said interns in Washington, D.C., not only do clerical and other tasks but “sexually gratify more established political figures.”

The scurrilous claim that interns provide sexual favors as part of their unpaid labor has nothing in common with journalistic integrity in any publication, let alone in a socialist newsweekly published in the interests of working people. The Militant apologizes to readers for repeating this anti-working-class slur.

—Steve Clark, editor
 
 
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