Sunday, February 27, 2005
"Softball" - The White House Press Corps
"Go ahead, Jeff" - Manipulation, Crude and Arrogant
By now the details of Jeff Gannon and his role as a planted (embedded) member of the White House press corps are known to all who have an interest in the goings on in the Bush White House.
Nevertheless, Hendrik Hertzberg's "Newshounds", in the Talk of the Town section of The New Yorker magazine (Feb.28, 2005) is worth reading. Mr. Hertzberg's elegant and understated prose is always a pleasure to read. He outlined the sordid facts and their implications in a masterly way.
hertzberg
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"Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies."
---Walter Lippman (1888-1974)
By now the details of Jeff Gannon and his role as a planted (embedded) member of the White House press corps are known to all who have an interest in the goings on in the Bush White House.
Nevertheless, Hendrik Hertzberg's "Newshounds", in the Talk of the Town section of The New Yorker magazine (Feb.28, 2005) is worth reading. Mr. Hertzberg's elegant and understated prose is always a pleasure to read. He outlined the sordid facts and their implications in a masterly way.
hertzberg
"Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies."
---Walter Lippman (1888-1974)
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