Thursday, June 02, 2005
Did DeepThroat Owe Woodstein the Outing Story?
WSJ.com - Deep Throat's Legacy: "Congratulations to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, for getting scooped this week on the story about their own Watergate source. Rather than betray the man who became known as Deep Throat, they managed to keep one of the great secrets in media history for 30 years, until the source first outed himself to another reporter. "
Did he, at the very least, owe them a heads up? He had been working with Vanity Fair for two years, but never a call just to let them know it was coming. Is that, in and of itself, dishonorable? I'll need more time to ponder it, but I certainly want to hear a genuine response from the writers themselves to that question.
Did he, at the very least, owe them a heads up? He had been working with Vanity Fair for two years, but never a call just to let them know it was coming. Is that, in and of itself, dishonorable? I'll need more time to ponder it, but I certainly want to hear a genuine response from the writers themselves to that question.
