Posted on 11/21/2005 4:53:21 AM PST by shortstop
This statement is pure BS:
"Duty to his readers to report what he knew....."
Newspapers and other print media have "budget" meetings.
The discuss and the editor decides what will be printed and how - or what will not be printed.
Anyone with any journalistic experience at all knows this.
They also do this at NPR and PBS and the broadcast networks and cable networks.
Political agendas are molded and shaped to fit the leftist agendas - except at the few conservative media outlets where a more balance exists.
Somewhere I have some audiotapes of some hot & juicy "budget meetings" that will stand your hair on end.
The problem that the media has with Bob Woodward is that he requested and got free and honest access to President GW Bush in the White House in his first term.
Woodward will not turn on or betray GW because he was treated fairly and Bush trusted him.
This the MSM can not handle.....
The media had better wise up or they are in for a long hard road - and they will be exposed in court as fools and liars and forgers and frauds.
Those who have not already been so exposed.....
Woodward is revealing that he is an unreliable POS, and he has been one for decades.
Thanks for the ping!
Bingo!
No, YOUR line of thinking doesn't confirm JACK! It wasn't the WH contacting anybody in the press, and you "concerted effort" theory is FOS, nice try!
Didn't one of the major news organizations get caught doing this also? Thought they held back news of Iraq so they could remain in good graces with Saddam and keep their office open over there, and as they said "so that people wouldn't be killed".
Do you think that Fitzgerald's line of questioning would have been different? Would Libby still have been put in a position to make potentially contradictory statements if Fitzgerald already knew that another government official was the first to speak Plame's name? Don't you think that Libby might have been asked about the other government official? Do you think that Fitzgerald would have kept completely quiet on Woodward, or might he have asked Libby if he meant Woodward when he said Russert, or might have been more understanding if Libby corrected himself and said he meant Woodward?
There are all sorts of "what if's" about how the Libby testimony might have played out if Woodward had informed Fitzgerald in a timely manner.
-PJ
Pithy and right on the mark.What hypocrites.
I'm not clear on how reporters have an obligation to report everything they know. But I do believe Woodward had an obligation to come forward when Libby was indicted. Woodward claims that he talked to his source after the indictment. Who knows?
Oh well, back to the old Selectric.
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