Vanity Fair Writer Rips Media for Plame Cover-Up

[Halliburton]

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001013806

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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.
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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."
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[cally]

1. That's it, I'm subscribing

Isn't it ironic that the most truthful articles are in a somewhat fluff magazine.

[DURHAM D]

6. Hey - there is nothing fluff about Vanity Fair. Whenever a friend

asks me a question about what maganize(s) they should read I suggest Vanity Fair. When they have a birthday I give them a one year subscription - its only $24.

[Scout1071]

15. I've been subscribing to VF for years and I love it.

I send it to 4 friends as a gift as well.

[KT2000]

17. One year for $18

if you use the cards inside the issue. Two years is $30!

I really enjoy it - you never know what will be in each issue. They have had some real groundbreakers that unfortunately got lost in the RW noise machine.

[Bumblebee]

2. Also check up the AP story which has just been posted

Probe Poses Issue of What Rove Told Bush

By PETE YOST

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Among the many questions surrounding the investigation into who in the Bush administration leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer is whether President Bush's top political adviser told his boss the truth about his connection to the case.

Two years ago, the White House denied that Karl Rove played any role, but revelations in the past month have shown that Rove spoke with two journalists about the operative, Valerie Plame. Whether Bush knew the truth while the White House was issuing its denials is not publicly known.

[Bumblebee]

4. AP link

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-CIA-Leak-Investigation.html

[Soup Bean]

3. WHEN did Vanity Fair turn into the "paper or record"?

Deep Throat, Plame.....I'm stunned.

[DURHAM D]

7. They have been for years. eom

[Bumblebee]

8. Are you kidding? They have the most vehemently anti-Bush

editor and have been great for a long time. It's catching up now because we are beginning to experience the perfect storm -- I hope :)

[Soup Bean]

9. Not kidding...just haven't read it.

There are a lot of people recommending the magazine these days. I just didn't know when it turned into something worth reading and promoting. Good for them, and good for us.

[Bumblebee]

13. That was rhetorical -- I knew you were not kidding :)

the only drawback of VF is that they have way too many ads which makes finding the articles sometimes nearly impossible -- but it's worth the search!

[AlCzervik]

10. Vanity Fair has been excellent on politics and especially the war

for a long time, Graydon Carter's ed. each month is worth the price alone.

[blm]

5. Not just TIME, but many DC journalists knew the truth and let Rove spin

the story into Wilson being just a campaign operative for Kerry.

They KNEW the truth and let the LIE STAND.

[iconoclastic cat]

11. POW! "they showed they owed their greatest allegiance to the source,"

"In doing so they showed they owed their greatest allegiance to the source, not their readers."

That's it. I've been trying to figure out just what ticked me off so much about their behavior, and what made their cries for the death of journalistic freedom so hollow. That line right there is exactly it.

[Stirk]

12. That's a very good point. I'm shocked that I haven't heard anyone else

mention it. Time and Newsweek knew very well who the leaker was since the investigation began. They not only passed on revealing it, but they printed the WH denials without criticism.

That's a damn good point.

[Cocoa]

14. I hadn't thought of it either

reminds me of another big scoop that Judy Miller was sitting on, but accidentally blurted out on "Hardball."

http://archive.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/02/07/times/

What the Times didn't say



Did you know that that the Bush administration has been "reaching out" again to Ahmad Chalabi, the discredited darling of Pentagon neo-cons? Neither did we. But the New York Times' Judith Miller says it's true. She just didn't say it in the New York Times.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Hardball" last weekend, Miller said that the White House has offered Chalabi "expressions of cooperation," and she cited "one report" that has Chalabi becoming an interior minister in the new Iraqi government. But none of this has appeared in the New York Times, and Times public editor Daniel Okrent wants to know why. In a fairly well scathing column over the weekend, Okrent says that Miller's "Hardball" appearance leaves a reader no choice but to reach one of two conclusions: "Judging by their absence from the paper, one must conclude that either Miller's Chalabi revelations were wrong or unsubstantiated or that The Times is suppressing an important piece of news."

more...

[Cocoa]

16. Cooper actually did write an article

in the fall I think of 2003, about the campaign against Wilson.

Though he didn't share everything I suppose...