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Sydney Schanberg, famed NYT reporter during Vietnam, the lead character in the movie the Killing Fields smacks Bob Woodward, access whore.
Schandberg is one of the few honorable reporters left who still speaks truth to power. Unlike Woodward he seeks the truth instead of access to power for million dollar book deals. Schandberg doesn't get invites to DC coctail parties, chats with Bush or TV gasbag shows. But he can look himself in the mirror and be proud that he hasn't sold his soul for money and power.
"To write his books, Woodward needs special access to major people in the White House and the key cabinet departments. He is presently working on what he says may be a multivolume treatment of Bush's second term. He had access to the president himself for his book on the first term. But with this scandal still unfolding, lots of government biggies have suddenly zipped their lips. This has complicated Woodward's work. Perhaps that explains, in part, his reluctance to mouth any full-blown criticism of Bush administration missteps."