6/02/2005 05:47:00 PM|||kim|||
Greg Palast:
Why don't we read more "Watergate" investigative stories in the US press? Given that the Woodwards of today dance on their hind legs begging officialdom for "access", news without official blessing doesn't stand a chance.
The Post follows current American news industry practice of killing any story based on evidence from a confidential source if a government honcho privately denies it. A flat-out "we didn't do it" is enough to kill an investigation in its cradle. And by that rule, there is no chance that the Managing Editor of the Washington Post, Bob Woodward, would today run Deep Throat's story of the Watergate break-in.
The part about access appears to be true, as evidenced by Woodward's love poetry to W in the guise of an account of 9.11. The part that doesn't sound right to me is the part about killing a story based on the denial of a "government honcho" (for some reason I'm picturing Wolfowitz in a sombrero). Wouldn't the Plame leak investigation have been killed? The Bush AWOL story? Abu Ghraib?|||111774954783451103|||Palast on Watergate Save Template Changes.