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Vanity Fair to run article blasting Time, NY Times for

helping to cover up Plame affai

 

 

 

'Vanity Fair' Rips Time and the New York Times for Plame Scandal Coverup

 

 

Greg Mitchell, Editor and Publisher, August 11, 2005

 

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=\

1001013806

 

 

NEW YORK 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. "

 

If they had burned this unworthy source and exposed his " crime, " he

adds, it would have been " of such consequences that it might,

reasonably, have presaged the defeat of the president, might have even

-- to be slightly melodramatic -- altered the course of the war in

Iraq. " In doing so they showed they owed their greatest allegiance to

the source, not their readers.

 

And their source was no Deep Throat, not someone with dirt on the

government -- the source " was the government. "

 

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. "

 

Even after the news first emerged last month that Rove had leaked to

Cooper, the media still waited days to even ask the White House press

secretary about it. It was a story, " in full view, the media just

ignored. "

 

The title of the Wolff article is " All Roads Lead to Rove. "

 

Wolff mocks Time's Matt Cooper and Norman Pearlstine and can't seem to

make heads or tails of " genuinely spooky " Robert Novak. He holds off

full judgment on the Times' jailed reporter Judith Miller, while noting

the " baloney " she retailed for the White House. But he pointedly notes,

concerning Miller, that reporters are born " blabbermouths " and even when

they don't write or print a certain story they are prone to " serve it

up to everybody they know. "

 

He closes with a frontal blast at the media, many members of which will

soon be exposed, he predicts, for having " lined up for these lies " spun

by the White House.

 

--Greg Mitchell (gmitchell

<gmitchell) is editor of E & P.

 

 

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