Tabloid tableau

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger continues to find himself in hot water. Today's L.A. Times reports that the Governor signed a pact with tabloid-producing American Media Inc., around the same time that the company, which publishes the National Enquirer, signed a woman named Gigi Goyette to a confidentiality deal. That confidentiality deal, signed only two days after Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy in the recall, paid Gigi $1000 to keep all her “interactions” with the actor-turned-politician quiet—except for disclosing them to American Media. It promised to pay her as much as $20,000 later. Since the tabloid has yet to run a story documenting Gigi’s affairs since signing her to a deal—whatever her and Schwarzenegger's affairs may be—the big question is why sign her to the deal. Did the Governor’s consulting contract have a part in it? Was the deal signed to silence Gigi? She seems to think so. In any case, it is more bad news and bad publicity for a Governor in need of neither. Read the whole story here.