Tuesday, December 13, 2005
A New Hall-of-Famer
God bless the MSM's DC correspondents, so dedicated to reportage -- not.
Judy Miller.
Bobby Woodward.
And now Viveca Novak. Managed to wait almost two whole years to tell her editor that she helped Karl Rove "re-tailor" his testimony to the Plame grand jury. Yeah, Viv, great judgment call. Welcome to the DC elite.
More proof, I suppose, that for the MSM, being a DC correspondent means no more than sucking up to the administration.
Do they have courses for this in journalism schools?
Anyway, congratulations again, Viv. You and your buds are doing a great job for the nation. We thank you from the bottoms of our hearts -- not.
(From Salon's War Room:
"Instead, Novak continued to report on the Plame case for Time. She didn't tell her editors when Luskin told her that he'd told Fitzgerald about their conversation and that the prosecutor might want to interview her. She didn't tell her editors when she hired white-collar criminal defense attorney Hank Schuelke. She didn't tell her editors when Fitzgerald sat her down for a two-hour interview on Nov. 10. ‘Unrealistically,’ she says, ‘I hoped this would turn out to be an insignificant twist in the investigation and also figured that if people at Time knew about it, it would be difficult to contain the information, and reporters would pounce on it -- as I would have.’
"Apparently concerned that her colleagues would have the same loose-lips problem she apparently had, Novak kept her secret to herself and continued to report on the Plame case while -- unbeknownst to her editors -- playing an increasingly important role in it. And ‘ironically,’ she says, she was writing about Woodward's role in the case when her lawyer called to say that Fitzgerald wanted to depose her under oath. That was on Nov. 18. On Nov. 20, she drove to the home of Time Washington bureau chief Jay Carney and told him what had happened. Carney called Time managing editor Jim Kelly. ‘Nobody was happy about it, least of all me,’ Novak says."
Thank God for a free press, so we can have these fine journalists at the forefront of their profession, doing good for the commonweal -- not.)
Judy Miller.
Bobby Woodward.
And now Viveca Novak. Managed to wait almost two whole years to tell her editor that she helped Karl Rove "re-tailor" his testimony to the Plame grand jury. Yeah, Viv, great judgment call. Welcome to the DC elite.
More proof, I suppose, that for the MSM, being a DC correspondent means no more than sucking up to the administration.
Do they have courses for this in journalism schools?
Anyway, congratulations again, Viv. You and your buds are doing a great job for the nation. We thank you from the bottoms of our hearts -- not.
(From Salon's War Room:
"Instead, Novak continued to report on the Plame case for Time. She didn't tell her editors when Luskin told her that he'd told Fitzgerald about their conversation and that the prosecutor might want to interview her. She didn't tell her editors when she hired white-collar criminal defense attorney Hank Schuelke. She didn't tell her editors when Fitzgerald sat her down for a two-hour interview on Nov. 10. ‘Unrealistically,’ she says, ‘I hoped this would turn out to be an insignificant twist in the investigation and also figured that if people at Time knew about it, it would be difficult to contain the information, and reporters would pounce on it -- as I would have.’
"Apparently concerned that her colleagues would have the same loose-lips problem she apparently had, Novak kept her secret to herself and continued to report on the Plame case while -- unbeknownst to her editors -- playing an increasingly important role in it. And ‘ironically,’ she says, she was writing about Woodward's role in the case when her lawyer called to say that Fitzgerald wanted to depose her under oath. That was on Nov. 18. On Nov. 20, she drove to the home of Time Washington bureau chief Jay Carney and told him what had happened. Carney called Time managing editor Jim Kelly. ‘Nobody was happy about it, least of all me,’ Novak says."
Thank God for a free press, so we can have these fine journalists at the forefront of their profession, doing good for the commonweal -- not.)
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