I'm really sad about Bob Woodward. He was a heroic icon from my youth. Turns out he hasn't been telling us the whole story in more recent times. Now, he says his job is keeping secrets. Really? Could have fooled me. The uninformed among us might think that his job actually is telling the American public the whole story, the truth. I count myself among them. Silly me.
Way back when, he sort of acted like he also thought his job was making sure we consumers of his craft got the unobscured truth. Isn't that what Watergate was all about....highly placed people in government thinking they could act in secret and these two young, wonder-journalists not letting them get away with that???
Woodward has certainly come a long way from those days. He's actually part of the establishment now, maybe he even believes his own press releases, the ones saying what a geat and powerful journalist he is.
........Sigh.
You gotta check out Joe Conason's article in Salon.com on the subject of Woodward. To read the article click on the title below. FYI, to read the article you have to watch a commercial first.
Woodward's Disgrace
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