July 15, 2005

Washington City Paper
USA Today’s Mark Memmott scooped the Post with his summary of Bob Woodward‘s book. Then Woodward gave Tom Brokaw — not the Post — the address of the garage where he met with Mark Felt. Woodward doesn’t seem to care that his colleagues were forced to play catch-up. “What was the problem — some people were late for dinner?” he asks.
> Hitchens: “Woodward’s allegiance is to print, not to writing” (NYT)

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