Sore Throat
What a tangled web we weave when upon anonymous sources we lean. Okay, so I’m not Sir Walter Scott (or Shakespeare as originally written) but that line about deception does seem to fit the continuing soap opera that is the Plame leak investigation. We thought Judith Miller’s exit from The New York Times signaled the end of the media’s part in the play. Turns out we’ve only reached intermission.
Today Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Washington Post, bravely took to the paper’s Web site to take questions from the public about this week’s revelation that Bob Woodward had been told about Valerie Plame by an unnamed source and had remained silent (even to Downie) about it until that source informed the prosecutor of it. The jolt kicked off this act with a bang. Woodward apologized to Downie and the paper, Post employees vented about it in internal conversations and plenty of questions were raised by media watchers.
PE applauds Downie for doing a Post chat and engaging in a dialogue with readers (how could we not?) but what was instructive about it was not what Downie had to say but rather the questions asked.
Today Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Washington Post, bravely took to the paper’s Web site to take questions from the public about this week’s revelation that Bob Woodward had been told about Valerie Plame by an unnamed source and had remained silent (even to Downie) about it until that source informed the prosecutor of it. The jolt kicked off this act with a bang. Woodward apologized to Downie and the paper, Post employees vented about it in internal conversations and plenty of questions were raised by media watchers.
PE applauds Downie for doing a Post chat and engaging in a dialogue with readers (how could we not?) but what was instructive about it was not what Downie had to say but rather the questions asked.
Author Thomas Friedman on Obama's Afghanistan plan and the war on terror.
