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Jon8503 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:04 PM
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'Vanity Fair' Rips Media 'Conspiracy' in Covering Up Role in Plame Scandal
By Greg Mitchell

NEW YORK In an article in the September issue of Vanity Fair (not yet online), Michael Wolff, in probing the Plame/CIA leak scandal, rips those in the news media -- principally Time magazine and The New York Times -- who knew that Karl Rove was one of the leakers but refused to expose what would have been “one of the biggest stories of the Bush years.” Not only that, “they helped cover it up.” You might say, he adds, they “became part of a conspiracy.”

If they had burned this unworthy source and exposed his “crime,” he adds, it would have been “of such consequences that it might, reasonably, have presaged the defeat of the president, might have even -- to be slightly melodramatic -- altered the course of the war in Iraq.” In doing so they showed they owed their greatest allegiance to the source, not their readers.

And their source was no Deep Throat, not someone with dirt on the government -- the source “was the government.”

So in the end, he concludes, “the greatest news organizations in the land had a story about a potential crime that reached as close as you can get to the president himself and they punted, they swallowed it, they self-dealt.” And why did they do it? Well, “a source is a source who, unrevealed, will continue to be a source.”

Even after the news first emerged last month that Rove had leaked to Cooper, the media still waited days to even ask the White House press secretary about it. It was a story, "in full view, the media just ignored."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001013806
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:05 PM
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1. vanity Fair surprisingly pulled no punches with Edmunds piece.
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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:21 PM
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2. Got my issue today in the mail and subscribers should all have
them by Friday.
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 08:42 PM
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3. Corporate Media: The Unindicted Co-Conspirators.
Helping the destroy our democracy. IMHO, no institution has done more damage in allowing an unbalanced viewpoint in our country than the institutions that withold political media oxygen. No wonder so many people who are TV programmable think Republicans are the real Americans...they never get to here any challenge to this repetition.

when America wakes up, we will hold them as accountable as the criminals they've enabled in this administration.

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