Popping a Woody
How disingenuous is Bob Woodward's story?
Yet, he also claims that not only did he have a strict, ironclad confidentiality agreement not to identify the source but that the agreement extended even further to not revealing the information he had been given.
One might reasonably ponder, "What the fuck?" How could the information be meaningless banter, on one hand, but, on the other, suffused with such significance as to be afforded double secret protection.
The whole Woodward story does serve as an illustration of the modern priorities of some of the media elites. Notice how Woodward's first priority was protection to his powerful inside-the-White-House source. Once Woodward's duplicity was revealed (Woodward had publicly denied having any info on the issue), he then apologized to his cocktail circuit friends in the upper echelons of the Washington Post. But ehere was the apology to his readers or the people who witnessed his analysis of the Plame affair during his many television appearances? To Woodward, the public now comes a distantr last.
Woodward said that the unnamed official told him about Plame "in an offhand, casual manner . . . almost gossip" and that "I didn't attach any great significance to it."
Yet, he also claims that not only did he have a strict, ironclad confidentiality agreement not to identify the source but that the agreement extended even further to not revealing the information he had been given.
One might reasonably ponder, "What the fuck?" How could the information be meaningless banter, on one hand, but, on the other, suffused with such significance as to be afforded double secret protection.
The whole Woodward story does serve as an illustration of the modern priorities of some of the media elites. Notice how Woodward's first priority was protection to his powerful inside-the-White-House source. Once Woodward's duplicity was revealed (Woodward had publicly denied having any info on the issue), he then apologized to his cocktail circuit friends in the upper echelons of the Washington Post. But ehere was the apology to his readers or the people who witnessed his analysis of the Plame affair during his many television appearances? To Woodward, the public now comes a distantr last.
posted by Macswain at
9:49 AM
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Woodward's priorities (in the following order)
1. gratifying his mammoth ego
2. ensuring access for his next book
3. ensuring six (perhaps seven) figure income;
4. not disturbing relations with Washington cocktail circuit friends, and other media elite;
5. the public's right to know
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