It's clear neither the New York Times or Post appreciated new governor David Paterson silver-plattering he and his wife's extramarital affairs story to the Daily News — and you don't even need to ask the reporters working the stories. You can see it in their reports.

In this latest iteration of his friendly relationship with the Daily News, Paterson has pissed off both the New York Times and the New York Post. While the Times is certainly happy to let the tabloids lead with a lower news standard when it comes to sex lives and non-impeachable moral offenses by elected officials, there's also no way that they haven't been working on this story.

A story posted online early this morning at the Times, by Danny Hakim, nearly seethes. "It was not clear if he had subsequent relationships outside his marriage, and no details were given of any extramarital affair that Ms. Paterson may have had."

Both "not clear" and "any" are very strange choices in phrasing.

And the poor Post reporters, at the mercy of a no-doubt enraged editor Col Allan, went the extra mile to protect their tabloid reputation. Early this morning, their web site began trumpeting that "Gov. Paterson carried on an extramarital affair for several years, The Post has learned." [NYO]