Woodward Tells All (Well, Some) ... to ... NOVAK'S DAUGHTER???!!!

So Woodward has told (part of) his side of the story to Time magazine. Which reporter served as stenographer for his account?

One Viveca Novak.

Novak. Hmm...any relation?

From an old Somerby column:

At any rate, months went by and not a peep from the avenging IC about Vile. Not a word of the "parallel case" concerning sexual harassment Novak said would be sent to the Congress. And wouldn't you know it, there came the day when the knight's own daughter would pen these remarks, written for all the world to see, right there in the pages of Time:

VIVECA NOVAK (1/18/99): House managers met to consider Willey as a witness.

WTF?

I know DC politics are incestuous, but c'mon. Couldn't they find a reporter who's not the child of one of the central figures in the investigation?

Hey Time, I don't think Jenna Bush has a job...maybe you can make her your White House correspondant! Great idea, huh?

•  Article doesn't say much but...

  Here's an interesitng tidbit

  "Woodward expressed some surprise that Fitzgerald hadn't contacted him earlier in the probe, but had high praise for the prosecutor whose investigation he has openly criticized on television. During his time with the prosecutor, Woodward said, he found Fitzgerald "incredibly sensitive to what we do. He didn't infringe on my other reporting, which frankly surprised me. He said 'This is what I need, I don't need any more.'"

  So now he's sucking up to Fitzie?  Hmmm

  by powwow500 on Fri Nov 18, 2005 at 05:49:44 PM PDT

  •  Bob Woodward only cares about one thing...

    Bob Woodward.

    by Trix on Fri Nov 18, 2005 at 07:36:50 PM PDT

•  Bob Woodward...

  ...is a White House shill.

  A filthy, whoring, traitorous, lying shill.

  by HollywoodOz on Fri Nov 18, 2005 at 06:11:44 PM PDT

•  Blistering

  column about Woodward & journalists in tomorrows LA Times by Tim Hutton

  LA Times

  Woodward joins a decadent dance
  Whatever impact the scandal surrounding the leak of former CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity ultimately has on the Bush administration, it continues to spread through the Washington press corps like a toxic plume.

  As it does, it discredits not only individual reporters and damages their news organizations but also an entire style of reporting that has come to dominate the way Americans are informed -- or misinformed -- concerning their government's conduct.

  
  The other reason all this has more or less succeeded and gone all but unremarked upon is that the administration has adroitly availed itself of the cultural complicity that prevails in a fin de siècle Washington press corps living out the decadence of an increasingly discredited reporting style. As the Valerie Plame scandal and its spreading taint have made all too clear, the trade in confidentiality and access that has made stars of reporters like Bob Woodward and Judy Miller now is utterly bankrupt.

  It still may call itself investigative journalism -- and so it once was -- but now it's really just a glittering and carefully choreographed waltz in which all the dancers share the unspoken agreement that the one unpardonable faux pas is to ask who's calling the tune.

  by Kitty on Fri Nov 18, 2005 at 06:21:38 PM PDT

  •  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

      There are elements of this story in the LAT that rise well beyond any consideration you have listed in the remarks you posted.

      This is about the state of reporting, well put, and exceeded only by Bill Moyers. You have rather trivialized the key content when it could have been a dynamite condemnation of journalistic ethos within the contemporary framework, with Woodward one of the elemental points of reflection.

    by walkshills on Fri Nov 18, 2005 at 08:57:24 PM PDT