Vanity Fair Calls out the MSM on Conspiracy to Protect Rove
I am starting to love Editor & Publisher.
From today's edition:
In an article in the September issue of Vanity Fair (not yet online), Michael Wolff, in probing the Plame/CIA leak scandal, rips those in the news media -- principally Time magazine and The New York Times -- who knew that Karl Rove was one of the leakers but refused to expose what would have been “one of the biggest stories of the Bush years.” Not only that, “they helped cover it up.” You might say, he adds, they “became part of a conspiracy.”
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So in the end, he concludes, “the greatest news organizations in the land had a story about a potential crime that reached as close as you can get to the president himself and they punted, they swallowed it, they self-dealt.” And why did they do it? Well, “a source is a source who, unrevealed, will continue to be a source.”
Finally, finally, finally the MSM is recognizing its own role in supporting, justifying, and propping up this debacle of an Administration. Is Vanity Fair going to be our Toto, pulling the curtain back so that Dorothy (and the rest of Red America) can finally see the Great Wizard of Rove pulling the levers marked "Fear," "Terror," and "Patriotism"?
You go, Vanity Fair. And, to the folks at Editor & Publisher (who also broke the news about Judith Miller's award for Conscience in the Media being revoked), major props. You keep reporting on media itself, and we'll keep directing readers your way.
From today's edition:
In an article in the September issue of Vanity Fair (not yet online), Michael Wolff, in probing the Plame/CIA leak scandal, rips those in the news media -- principally Time magazine and The New York Times -- who knew that Karl Rove was one of the leakers but refused to expose what would have been “one of the biggest stories of the Bush years.” Not only that, “they helped cover it up.” You might say, he adds, they “became part of a conspiracy.”
* * *
So in the end, he concludes, “the greatest news organizations in the land had a story about a potential crime that reached as close as you can get to the president himself and they punted, they swallowed it, they self-dealt.” And why did they do it? Well, “a source is a source who, unrevealed, will continue to be a source.”
Finally, finally, finally the MSM is recognizing its own role in supporting, justifying, and propping up this debacle of an Administration. Is Vanity Fair going to be our Toto, pulling the curtain back so that Dorothy (and the rest of Red America) can finally see the Great Wizard of Rove pulling the levers marked "Fear," "Terror," and "Patriotism"?
You go, Vanity Fair. And, to the folks at Editor & Publisher (who also broke the news about Judith Miller's award for Conscience in the Media being revoked), major props. You keep reporting on media itself, and we'll keep directing readers your way.
posted by Anonymous at 1:04 PM
1 Comments:
Unfortunately the media isn't into self-critique nor self-policing like they should be... If more of mainstream media picked apart each others' stories instead of just picking them up, we would find more reliable and trustworthy news through out. Especially with regard to the politically motivated "leaks".
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