by NavnDansk » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:32 am
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.unknownnews.org/061009-Reporters-who-dont.html">www.unknownnews.org/06100...-dont.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Journalists from Newsweek, Atlantic Monthly met with Bush to create post-9/11 talking points<br><br>by Julie Bosman, New York Times<br>Oct. 9, 2006<br><br>It was the kind of shadowy, secret Washington meeting that Bob Woodward is fond of describing in detail. In his new book, State of Denial, he writes that on Nov. 29, 2001, a dozen policy makers, Middle East experts and members of influential policy research organizations gathered in Virginia at the request of Paul D. Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense. Their objective was to produce a report for President Bush and his cabinet outlining a strategy for dealing with Afghanistan and the Middle East in the aftermath of 9/11.<br> <br>What was more unusual, Mr. Woodward reveals, was the presence of journalists at the meeting. Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International and a Newsweek columnist, and Robert D. Kaplan, now a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, attended the meeting and, according to Mr. Kaplan, signed confidentiality agreements not to discuss what happened......<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Commentary by Madeline Zane:<br><br>As an aside, it's a little funny that the report of this unethical trampling of the line between government agent and journalist is brought to you by Bob Woodward, who bravely stopped cozying up to the Bush administration when he realized he could sell more books that way ... and that the New York Times buried this story in their "Media and Advertising" section.<br><br><br>Commentary by Helen & Harry Highwater:<br><br>Doesn't this seem darn peculiar to you? Why would reporters be invited behind the scenes to help shape governmental public relations points?<br><br>It seems like the kind of meeting reporters might want to report about ... but instead the reporters were present at "a brainstorming session," after signing "confidentiality agreements" promising not to report what happened.<br><br>If I was running Newsweek or Atlantic Monthly I'd want reporters to report the news, not sit on it.And if I was reading either publication, I'd want to know that these reporters have cleared out their desks, left the building, and won't be coming back. But there's no indication these 'reporters' are in any trouble at all.<br><br>Helen & Harry<br><br>filed under: Journalism, censorship, and <br>propaganda<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=navndansk>NavnDansk</A> at: 10/27/06 9:35 am<br></i>