{"id":189035,"date":"2010-06-04T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/04\/quote-of-the-day-241\/"},"modified":"2010-06-04T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T09:15:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/04\/quote-of-the-day-241\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I think Woodward\u2019s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">capitulation to interviewing people in limousines<\/span>, as opposed to people on the subway, is something I feel is partly responsible for the fact that we ended up in Iraq. Because so many reporters, Judith Miller is the most egregious of them, spoke to Scooter Libby and some other higher officials, and never spoke to intelligence people on the ground. They swallowed wholesale Colin Powell at the U.N., and [ultimately] their <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">limousine reporting meant that 100,000 Iraqis lost their lives<\/span>. I don\u2019t think anything can be so neatly drawn, but I think in this case it can be neatly drawn.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/need-to-know\/voices\/a-writer-leaves-journalism-to-find-truth-in-fiction\/1159\/\">Novelist, and former Washington Post reporter Lorraine Adams <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">on her former colleague Bob Woodward<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>A very succinct indictment of what is wrong with the Washington DC press corps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Woodward\u2019s capitulation to interviewing people in limousines, as opposed to people on the subway, is something I feel is partly responsible for the fact that we ended up in Iraq. Because so many reporters, Judith Miller is the most egregious of them, spoke to Scooter Libby and some other higher officials, and never &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,974,1129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-hack-journalism","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}