Too late, Bob.

Quote:Journalist Bob Woodward of Watergate fame has some advice for his younger peers — stop “binge drinking the anti-Trump Kool-Aid.”

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” invited Mr. Woodward on set Friday morning to discuss President Donald Trump’s administration. The veteran reporter warned that too many journalists are allowing confirmation bias cloud their judgment.

“I think it’s time to dial back a little bit about because there are people around […] who are kind of binge drinking the anti-Trump Kool-Aid,” Mr. Woodward said, The Daily Caller reported. “And that is not going to work in journalism. Let the politicians have that binge drinking.”

Mr. Woodward’s comments come against a political backdrop in which Mr. Trump is accused of asking former FBI Director James Comey to end an investigation into former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn, along with claims the president revealed classified information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly said that he has done nothing wrong.

“With all of the illegal acts that took place in the Clinton campaign & Obama Administration, there was never a special councel [sic] appointed!” the president tweeted Thursday, a reaction to Robert Mueller’s oversight role on the investigation into Russia’s meddling into the 2016 election.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017...nge-drink/

We should stop binging on news, period. Media outlets are prospering by pitting Americans against each other and every click or view of their nonsense only feeds the beast.

Says the guy who built his career on bringing down Presidents.

(05-21-2017 06:05 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Says the guy who built his career on bringing down Presidents.

Well, bringing down *a* President.

It's mostly forgotten now, but he also wrote a biography of the comedian John Belushi. Many of Belushi's relatives/friends cooperated with Woodward (granting interviews, etc.). I can't speak to the book's accuracy or fairness. But Belushi's family (especially his brother Jim) came out of that experience feeling that Woodward had repeatedly lied to them and betrayed them about the way he intended to portray John in the book when it finally was published about '84/'85.

Journalists lie?? Say it ain't so!!

(05-21-2017 07:59 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(05-21-2017 06:05 AM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  Says the guy who built his career on bringing down Presidents.

Well, bringing down *a* President.

It's mostly forgotten now, but he also wrote a biography of the comedian John Belushi. Many of Belushi's relatives/friends cooperated with Woodward (granting interviews, etc.). I can't speak to the book's accuracy or fairness. But Belushi's family (especially his brother Jim) came out of that experience feeling that Woodward had repeatedly lied to them and betrayed them about the way he intended to portray John in the book when it finally was published about '84/'85.

He wrote an explosive book on W and tried to do the same with Obama.

Never talk to a reporter.

http://amgreatness.com/2017/05/19/delusi...ump-crowd/

The delusional press-article focuses on the conservative never-Trumpers who are turning into an indistinguishable single mind.

"...I could extend the list. But here’s the point: it wouldn’t matter what Trump accomplished. The media, having descended into its crowd posture, cannot countenance any Trumpian success. He has to fail, because in their group-think world, Trump’s success entails their eclipse.
They are not necessarily wrong about that, by the way. But their dishonesty, compacted with their hysteria and cynical bid for power, is a disfiguring testimony to the loss of political sanity.  
Some people think that the anti-Trump cohort is winning because that is all they hear or read about. Every time they turn on CNN or open The New York Times it is the same story.  
But the unanimity is illusory. It is a tiny fraternity shouting at you as it talks to itself. It really is a form of insanity, sad to witness, but dangerous if left unchecked."

(05-21-2017 08:31 AM)boss man Wrote:  Journalists lie?? Say it ain't so!!

My brother who was a professional newsman told me it wasn't lying when I brought it to his attention about a human interest story he wrote where there were falsehoods. He called it "writers prerogative". LOL

I called it lying.

Who knows if it will ever happen or not. But if anyone is ever able to publish an accurate, thorough, detailed biography of Bob Woodward's life, they would become as rich and famous as Woodward himself.

Same goes for John Dean.

(05-21-2017 09:54 AM)Claw Wrote:  Never talk to a reporter.

Reporters would consider this a violation of their first amendment rights.

(05-21-2017 03:42 PM)LeFlâneur Wrote:  

(05-21-2017 09:54 AM)Claw Wrote:  Never talk to a reporter.

Reporters would consider this a violation of their first amendment rights.

Probably