Woodie Misses the Judgment Call

[spindrifter]

Here is what some of his peer group has to say:

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"It just looks really bad," said Eric Boehlert, a Rolling Stone contributing editor and author of a forthcoming book on the administration and the press. "It looks like what people have been saying about Bob Woodward for the past five years, that he's become a stenographer for the Bush White House."

Said New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen: "Bob Woodward has gone wholly into access journalism."

Robert Zelnick, chairman of Boston University's journalism department, said: "It was incumbent upon a journalist, even one of Woodward's stature, to inform his editors. . . . Bob is justifiably an icon of our profession -- he has earned that many times over -- but in this case his judgment was erroneous."

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And here's some of what Woodie had to say earlier...

Woodward has criticized the Fitzgerald probe in media appearances. He said on MSNBC's "Hardball" in June that in the end "there is going to be nothing to it. And it is a shame. And the special prosecutor in that case, his behavior, in my view, has been disgraceful." In a National Public Radio interview in July, Woodward said that Fitzgerald made "a big mistake" in going after Miller and that "there is not the kind of compelling evidence that there was some crime involved here."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111601286.html

[CoffeeCat]

1. What bothers me the most...

...is how Woodward is doing BushCo's dirty work. He's spinning and making their talking points--as he does his little press junkets.

It's one thing to play nicey-nice with this administration--so you can have access.

However, it's an entirely different animal--when you are covering up their crimes and acting as their mouthpiece on a whirlwind media tour.

That really reeks.

[spindrifter]

2. The Rolling Stone

guy called it: stenographer to the * admin.