'Vanity Fair' Rips Media 'Conspiracy' in Covering Up Role, Plame Scanda

[G_j]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081205Y.shtml

'Vanity Fair' Rips Media 'Conspiracy' in Covering Up Role in Plame Scandal

By Greg Mitchell
Editor & Publisher

Thursday 11 August 2005

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."

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[Booster]

1. It seems if we want to get real news and the truth, we might just

have to give up cable tv and buy Vanity Fair. They have been awesome the last couple of months.

[G_j]

2. they have been amazing

history will judge them kindly..

[KT2000]

3. that was a good article

Judy Miller was recognized as a mouthpiece for the administration in the lead up to the war. People who cry about her being jailed think she has been behaving as a real journalist when she has been an insider all along. I think that Fitzgerald sees her as that more than a journalist

[G_j]

4. kick

[Karenina]

5. We CAN multi-task!!!

:D

[G_j]

6. he he...

amazing isn't it? :think:

[snowbear]

7. Thanks for posting G_j... !! ~~~ Gotta quick question..

I'm trying to remember.. Doesn't Fitzgerald have a timeline for completing his investigation and turning over his findings?

If so.. anyone recall when that date is? Thanks! :)

[tibbir]

8. I think it's in October sometime.

Also, now that there's been a change-up at the DOJ I wonder what his chances of an extension are should he need one.

[G_j]

9. good question

I'm not sure...but I think I heard Oct. also.

[G_j]

10. one more..

:bounce:

[growlypants]

11. Dear Jesus...........PLEASE work a miracle and let them IMPEACH

this A-HOLE and EVERYONE in his administration. I promise I'll be a good girl from now on if you do. Really.

[G_j]

12. yep, the whole crew need to be impeached and held accountable

and welcome to DU growlypants ! :hi:

[Karenina]

13. And ...

:kick: