RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Novak: No Bush Administration Effort to Discredit Joe Wilson

["Spurling, Shannon" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I'm surprised no one has responded. Cut that, Jon just responded. :-)

I think that news organizations sometimes play up or down a story to
save face. I came to most of the same conclusions as Stephen, but I
don't think that Novak comes off as a sleaze ball. He actually comes off
better looking than most of the other reporters involved, IMHO. He
showed some restraint and good judgment after the fact. He reported
things that he should not have, that people didn't mean to tell him.
That's not being a sleaze ball, that's just reporters (apparently). At
least he didn't grand stand for no reason like most of the others. But
this is just my opinion.

S
 

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> Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Novak: No Bush Administration
> Effort to Discredit Joe Wilson
> 
> Novak: No Bush Administration Effort to Discredit Joe Wilson
> 
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,203234,00.html
> 
> I tried looking for this story on the CNN and MSNBC websites as well,
> but none of them told it like this article does.  So either FoxNews is
> dressing up the story, or the other news organizations are dressing it
> down, or both.
> 
> Basically it comes across that Novak tricked the information out of
the
> White House - Rove's comfirmation of Plame's identity seems more a
slip
> of the tongue than a concerted effort to endanger her.  All in all it
> seems to me that the media attention, and the attacks on the
credibility
> on the White House now seem like an extremely shoddy and dishonest
> political attack.  Novak comes out looking like a sleezeball if ever
> there was one, and all this talk of "protecting the 1st ammendment"
> comes across as pure hypocracy.
> 
> Stephen
> 
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