NYT: In the Prelude to Publication, Intrigue Worthy of Deep Throat

[DeepModem Mom]

In the Prelude to Publication, Intrigue Worthy of Deep Throat
By TODD S. PURDUM and JIM RUTENBERG
Published: June 2, 2005


WASHINGTON, June 1 - This was not the way that Bob Woodward expected to tell the last chapter of the Watergate story that he and The Washington Post had owned for more than 30 years.... (T)his week, in the wake of Vanity Fair magazine's disclosure that W. Mark Felt was his secret source - Deep Throat - it became clear that Mr. Woodward had been facing months, and even years, of competitive pressure from an unlikely source, the Felt family itself.

On Wednesday, word came that the family of Mr. Felt - the ailing, 91-year-old former No. 2 official of the F.B.I. - had sought payment in vain for his story after failing to reach a collaborative agreement with Mr. Woodward - not only from Vanity Fair, but also from People magazine and HarperCollins Books. They are apparently still determined to claim their share of the story that helped make Mr. Woodward a famous millionaire.

"It's doing me good," Mr. Felt told reporters outside his home in Santa Rosa, Calif., when asked how he was reacting to the publicity. "I'll arrange to write a book or something, and collect all the money I can."

Mr. Woodward's longtime book publisher, Simon & Schuster, now plans to rush his own, long-planned book on his relationship with Mr. Felt into print this summer, as early as July, according to a senior publishing executive who spoke on the condition of anonymity....

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It also became clear on Wednesday that the Vanity Fair article had forced Mr. Woodward to bow to the institutional imperatives of the newspaper that has given him almost unrivaled leeway to tell his stories in the time and way of his own choosing. Senior Post executives said that the newspaper had convinced Mr. Woodward that the time had come to tell this tale at last - and as quickly as possible....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/politics/02woodward.html?hp&ex=1117771200&en=573d2de06ee2068a&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[evlbstrd]

1. And they're off!

[bpilgrim]

2. the Downing Street Minutes

is what i stupidly thought would be the sub headline :argh:

peace

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Sorry, bp!

:-(

[Gregorian]

4. Downing Street Memo. Read all about it! Headlines!

Mr. Wizard, where are we? Why are they talking about news from 1974? It's 2005. Wake up; Come back to reality. Bush stole the election and started an illegal war. Someone wake up the media...
Here's what we want to see. Just do a Bush face swap-

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. Woodward doesn't gather any moss, does he?

I've got a decent title: "All The Last Bucks."

Wait a second! "All The Dead President's Men!" :think:

[loudsue]

6. Yep...Woodward has become just another greedy shark...

and a repuke asskisser. :puke: He did one big thing in his life, and he couldn't have done it with the press we have today. I'm glad he had the go-ahead from his employers to persue Nixon. He does not have the go-ahead to persue the bush mafia.

It's NOT that Woodward was great: it's that he had permission to print what he found out. Reporters these days who DO have something to print, aren't allowed to, for the most part. And if they are allowed to print something against the bush mafia, they only get to write about it once or twice, until the other papers get on board... and then they all bury it as quickly as possible.

:kick:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Word.

[AndreaCG]

8. Hell Woodward is the fucking managing editor of the WP

He could make the dozens of scandals about the Bush administration come alive. He doesn't.

[UpInArms]

9. why oh why did I even think that this "story" would be relevant

to today?

:banghead:

:banghead:

:sigh: