I love it when people are descibed as "working like dogs." My two are currently curled up on our pillow-top bed where they spend much of the day in peaceful slumber. Apparently they work like reporters!
Posted by J Heim at November 28, 2005 09:41 AMThe stunning thing to me on the whole Woodward story is how much the media pundits don't even think of asking a basic question about Woodward's reporting: is it true?
Because a cursory glance at what he writes is that most of it is not true. It's whatever spin his sources wanted to be true. It's their favorite gossip.
Because there are repeatedly basic things that don't make sense. Like Bush II quoted eloquently. Or that Casey death bed scene. Or the fact that Greenspan's not a god, etc.
That's the big problem with considering his as a reporter: he writes hooey, and it's been pretty obvious for a while that he writes hooey. He's owned by his sources - he's their stenographer.
But he sure isn't a reporter
Posted by Samuel Knight at November 28, 2005 09:52 AMSomewhere recently I read that Bernstien must have done all the heavy lifting on the Watergate investigation for Woodward is way too uncritical of his subjects for the quality of the final product. I agree.
Posted by rlp at November 28, 2005 10:26 AMWoodward "working like a dog" is code for Woodward "taking it Doggy-Style" from BushCorp.
Posted by God Of War at November 28, 2005 10:33 AMWoodward "working like a dog". Yes, a Bu$hCo lapdog.
Posted by Red_Neck_Repub at November 28, 2005 10:37 AMIt depends on what you mean by the word "neutral," doesn't it, Mary?
Posted by Slothrop at November 28, 2005 11:09 AM"Depends on what we mean by 'neutral'"
So we now know that Republicans use the word "neutral" to mean the same thing that FOX means by its use of the phrase "fair and balanced."
Posted by Mr. Flibble at November 28, 2005 12:29 PMOne thing that is clear from Woodward is that Rummy beat down General Frank until Frank went into Iraq with too small a force, setting up the US for failure in Iraq.
Posted by Jon from Wis at November 28, 2005 06:51 PMThis is speculation but I suspect the White House took Bob Woodward seriously at first. Here was an opportunity to test how well they could spin against one of the nation's top reporters. Instead, they discovered that Woodward had become an MSM poodle. No doubt they were pleased.
Posted by Craig at November 28, 2005 11:23 PMThe way they got Straussian boy-toy Hitchens to roll over, pretty much confirmed for me that power/access and "journalistic integrity" cant coexist.
Posted by jondee at November 30, 2005 02:05 PM