YES BOB WAS A YOUNG SPIRIT,LOOKING FOR THE TRUTH, AND I THANK HIM, NOW HE IS TOO WELL CONNECTED TO WANT TO BE ON THE FRONT LINES,POWER CORRUPTS. SORRY FOR YOU BOB.OUR COUNTRY IS BLEEDING.

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Of course, power corrupts, and that is what happened to St. Robert of the Washingtopn Host. The problem with the Washington Host and with the New York Chimes is the Editors. They are likely the ones who are connected to the Ministry of Propaganda. How else to explain some of the vacuous articles written by many different journalists? So St. Robert and Ste. Judith were corrupted by power and money. But likely the editors were bought before them.

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Yes, this is an excellent example of how so many journalists have been corrupted by power and money.

Woodward had the highest access to powerful people in the Bush administration. He was paid well for his services at concealing the truth and blocking investigation by the Special Prosecutor. He was paid with access to power and money for "getting the inside story."

A journalist's first duty is to the truth, not his career or financial security. It can be a hard choice to make but it goes with the territory.

There have been so many journalists who have sacrified their virtue .... their honor, honesty and truthfulness ... so that they could maintain some security or gain some political power in their business.

Shame on you, Bob Woodward. I once held you in high esteem.

Steve Moyer
http://stevemoyer.us

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If the argument being offered here is that Woodward's bosses somehow encouraged him to suck up to the White House, its proponents have a woeful misunderstanding of how the U.S. media works. Nobody has to twist journalists' arms in order to get them to prostitute themselves.

In my 25 years as a daily newspaper reporter, I have repeatedly noticed that if a reporter is careerist enough, ambitious enough, greedy enough and lazy enough, he or she will find a way to end up becoming a slavish mouthpiece to power without the intervention of any middle- or upper-level news executives. And it doesn't matter whether the reporter in question works in Washington, D.C., the state capitol or in the press room down at your local courthouse.

In fact, as can be seen in Woodwardgate and Millergate, editors -- even senior editors -- often cave in to the Woodwards and Millers of the media world, because the stories these media "superstars" bring in make the editors look good.

What fries me about the current flap is the claim that losing the ability to quote sources without attribution will interfere with publishing information from legitimate government whistleblowers. As if!

These "reporters" hiding behind First Amendment claims of confidentiality wouldn't know a legitimate government whistleblower if they tripped over one in an underground parking garage at two in the morning on the way home from a Georgetown cocktail party!

Bill Wallace, San Francisco
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