Reply #22: odd that nobody mentioned anything about bi-partisanship. [View All]

[apnu]

Which as always been Woodward's thing. He takes the creed of journalism very seriously and attempts to present things at they are to him. He's not putting his personal view into the book, nor his personal politics. He lets those he interviewed sit there on their own merits, as a journalist should do, and let the reader make up his/her own mind with the content provided.

Yet I keep hearing on DU that Woodward let * off the hook simply because he didn't make any accusations. Woodward is a reporter, its not his job to make accusations Even though, journalism today is all about accusations, that's actually in violation of the creed (or oath some say) of journalism. He didn't partake in "yellow journalism" something the left and right have been guilty of for hundreds of years in America.

Give the guy a break and take his book as is and draw your own conclusions, don't burn his effigy because he didn't "go after" *. There are tons of other books out there for you to read if that gets your jollies off. Try "Dude, Where's My Country" by Michael Moore, "Lies" by Al Franken, "Bushwacked" by Molly Ivans, and "Worse than Watergate" by John Dean.

Of course, his other book about * is puzzling and you can dive around DU about it and find a ton of theories about that. But we'll never know what Woodward was thinking between these books until someone asks him. I don't know what to say on that, having not talked to or heard from Woodward on this. But I will still take his books at face value, and this current one has a bunch of information in it that scoops everybody which is why he's showing up everywhere with his stories.