Sept. Vanity Fair has great story about Rove

[Beaverhausen]

(This is the issue with Jennifer Anniston on the cover.)

The story isn't online yet but here is a blurb "about" the story.

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


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."

more at the link
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Wolff's article was written when Rove was just being revealed as the source and I get the impression thatWolff thought by the time the story hit the newstands Rove would have either resigned or been fired (or arrested). Sadly as we know, none of that has happened.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Why is it a shock that the media ignored a big story that was important

to the public interest? They've been laying down on the job for over ten years now!