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>Why would you bring him up, of all people? That's really rude. You know why he brought him up - he's one of the most famous investigative journalists. I'm sor
by morcheeba 11y ago
>Why would you bring him up, of all people?
That's really rude. You know why he brought him up - he's one of the most famous investigative journalists. I'm sorry you're offended and that you don't consider his current work to be investigative enough.
- ZanyProgrammer 11y agoBut he really isn't. Woodward isn't remotely near the outsider status he had in the 1970s. Its hardly "rude" by any standard.
- toyg 11y agoI stand by my comment. I'm sorry if it sounds rude, but Woodward really is not an investigative journalist today and has not been for more than a decade (to be generous). It is an insult to the profession to put him in that category, and I'd argue that most investigative journalists today look at him as the person not to become. Hence my surprise. He could have named Bernstein, or Hersh, or a thousand others who did not become vanilla political insiders as soon as they could. It's like saying "great kernel hackers like Bill Gates", when he has not written a line of code in 20 years. I would find that association really curious, wouldn't you?