What? Did the press just sit on all of this stuff until after the election????
What?
You surprised they DIDN'T just "sit on this stuff" till after the election?
/sarcasm
You're surprised?
Simply put...yes.
Yes but it based around an agreement Newsweek made with both the Bush and Kerry campaigns. They would get access behind-the-scenes providing they promise NOT to reveal the workings until AFTER the election.
In other words, yes they sat on it because they promised to.
Actually, I heard on a radio morning show today that was interviewing another Newsweek guy that the embedded reporters for BOTH campaigns doing this all-access reporting had to sign something agreeing not to report anything until after the election so as "not to sway the outcome one way or another".
The Newsweek guy also was saying in the interview (I think this might even be in the report) that Ter-ay-za kept insisting during the dem primaries that SHE (Not J F'n K) wanted to have a public one-on-one debate with Howard Dean, and that the staffers had their hands full dissuading her. Now THAT would have been comedy....
What? Did the press just sit on all of this stuff until after the election????
You know I am beginning to think the bias was not only ideology, but the anticipated increase in revenue if classless lowlifes moved into the White House. Bush years were awfully boring gossip wise- they wanted bubba years!
Yep! The media kept all this info to themselves during the campaign - and now they want us to buy their magazines to get the info after the election... I know what I want to tell Evan Thomas to do with his Newsweek... I'll just wait for the juice here at FR!