Stop Selling Woodward's book
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By E&P Staff
Published: October 02, 2006 1:50 PM ET updated 2:15 PM
NEW YORK Interviewed by Matt Lauer on the Today show today, Bob Woodward revealed that he had deliberately timed his new book, "State of Denial," to come out before the November elections.
Lauer had challenged Woodward on the timing, since the charges in the book about the administration allegedly misleading the public on progress in the Iraq war are so significant. How could he hold that for a book? Why didn't he get them published in his newspaper, The Washington Post, or shout them from a "mountaintop" instead of waiting to "make a splash" with them in a book?
Woodward replied that he had not waited "to make a splash, but to assemble the whole story," and then go to the White House and Pentagon and CIA and ask, "What did you do?" He added: "Simon & Schuster and my bosses at the Washington Post said the only real obligation here is to tell it before the election.
"That's what we're doing. People can judge for themselves."
Asked by Lauer if he is saying in the book that Bush "lied," Woodward said he wouldn't use that language. He did deny claims from the White House that he came in with pre-meditated idea and manufactured conclusions to fit. "
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003189931
"It got a judge to rule that the broadcasters were not just supporters of the repeal campaign, they were agents of it. Why, they had even used the pronoun "we" when referring to proponents of repeal. Their speech constituted political advertising, and their employer was making an "in-kind contribution" to the repeal campaign. The judge said a monetary value must be placed on their speech (he did not say how, he just said to do it that day). The law says reports must be filed and speech limits obeyed or fines imposed.
Will bookstores be forced to stop selling Woodward's book three weeks before the election?
By E&P Staff
Published: October 02, 2006 1:50 PM ET updated 2:15 PM
NEW YORK Interviewed by Matt Lauer on the Today show today, Bob Woodward revealed that he had deliberately timed his new book, "State of Denial," to come out before the November elections.
Lauer had challenged Woodward on the timing, since the charges in the book about the administration allegedly misleading the public on progress in the Iraq war are so significant. How could he hold that for a book? Why didn't he get them published in his newspaper, The Washington Post, or shout them from a "mountaintop" instead of waiting to "make a splash" with them in a book?
Woodward replied that he had not waited "to make a splash, but to assemble the whole story," and then go to the White House and Pentagon and CIA and ask, "What did you do?" He added: "Simon & Schuster and my bosses at the Washington Post said the only real obligation here is to tell it before the election.
"That's what we're doing. People can judge for themselves."
Asked by Lauer if he is saying in the book that Bush "lied," Woodward said he wouldn't use that language. He did deny claims from the White House that he came in with pre-meditated idea and manufactured conclusions to fit. "
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003189931
"It got a judge to rule that the broadcasters were not just supporters of the repeal campaign, they were agents of it. Why, they had even used the pronoun "we" when referring to proponents of repeal. Their speech constituted political advertising, and their employer was making an "in-kind contribution" to the repeal campaign. The judge said a monetary value must be placed on their speech (he did not say how, he just said to do it that day). The law says reports must be filed and speech limits obeyed or fines imposed.
State law restricts to $5,000 the amount a single giver can contribute in the three weeks before an initiative. If Carlson's and Wilbur's speech were monetized at radio-advertising rates, they would be silenced for all but about 15 minutes in each of the campaign's crucial last three weeks. They continued to talk (the repeal campaign, outspent almost five to one, lost 54.6-45.4) and, aided by the libertarian litigators of the Institute for Justice, have taken the issue to the state Supreme Court."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15078348/site/newsweek/
Will bookstores be forced to stop selling Woodward's book three weeks before the election?
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