FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2005
National Journal
"He's where he always is, somewhere close to the center of the big Washington story, and that's what really drives other media people crazy," writes
William Powers, a "close friend" of
Bob Woodward. Regarding charges that Woodward's a suck-up to power: "The reality of journalism is that everyone has to suck up -- request the interview, make the small talk, form the connection, try to pry out the bits of information that journalists sausage into news. It just happens that some of us -- or rather, one of us -- is a lot better at getting news, news so fresh and inside it astounds even the insiders."
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