Posting The Post's Posts

By: Hillary Profita
Topics: Blog Buzz

Amid the ever-expanding intrigue of the Bob Woodward/CIA leak debacle, FishbowlDC has posted the contents of an internal (at least it used to be) online discussion board conversation among Post employees. The discussion began on the subject of the Woodward controversy and soon morphed into a very different discussion as Jonathan Yardley discovered that his comments had been leaked to The New York Times. Glenn Kessler was miffed, posting that he thinks "it is outrageous that someone gave Yardley's comments to the New York Times."

Other discussion participants, such as Sara Goo, noted in her entry that it happens all the time, sometimes in the Post itself:

I hardly find it surprising that comments from this forum would get leaked to the Times or any other news organization. Any issue of Washingtonian magazine shows that journalists leak to other journalists when it comes to the in-love-with-ourselves gossip of the media reporting on the media.

After all, a few weeks ago I found my own comments from this forum quoted in a Washington Post story about this forum.

It's certainly interesting reading…