Beware of the Media

New York City

It’s good to be reminded of just how big the disconnect can be between reporting and reality: Don’t believe everything you read in your morning newspaper.

I was outside the Plaza Hotel last night when I re-learned this lesson. It was shortly after Barack and Michelle Obama arrived to speak to the less-than-1-percent who’d paid $10,000 a plate to attend a fundraiser hosted by Sex and the City creator Darren Star. It was the president’s second campaign stop of the night: He came to the Plaza directly from the home of Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker, where guests shelled out $40,000 a plate to mingle with the fashionista and Vogue editor Anna Wintour.