McGinniss suggested to the "Los Angeles Times" that Kennedy himself had orchestrated a smear campaign against him. "This has been a practice of theirs Kennedy family for years," he said and quoted a "Boston Globe" reporter who recently wrote that the family "'only had two approaches to journalists, either buying or demonizing them." McGinnis declared, "They didn't buy me." He added, "They want to ... mutilate the body so badly that no other messenger is ever going to come down the pike."