NYT: At the Eye of Hurricane Valerie

BCPVP · #1 07-19-2005, 12:46 PM

How does being "the newspaper of record" justify being elbow deep in this supposed scandal? Much less having committed a far worse crime of actually exposing real covert agents?

MtSmalls · #2 07-19-2005, 01:37 PM

I'm not sure how you qualify the NYT as being "elbow deep" is this scandal (and its not supposed). Neither Miller nor Cooper published anything, in the Times or elsewhere, about the identity of any CIA agents. That was Mr. Novak. Ms. Miller, a cheerleader for the Adminstration leading up the invasion of Iraq, and for a long time after, and Mr. Cooper, are reporters who were contacted by various people within the Bush Administration, including Rove, who gave up the name of Valerie Plame,(or Joe Wilson's wife, if you prefer)

BCPVP · #3 07-19-2005, 02:02 PM

They are more actively involved in this "scandal" than any other news organization.

But please, Mt. Smalls, tell me you're not one of the few loons left that actually believe Rove did anything illegal or wrong.

MtSmalls · #4 07-19-2005, 05:59 PM

How is the NYT "more actively involved"?? Because one of their reporters is in Jail?

Matt Cooper works for Newsweek. Novak's column wasn't printed in the Times.

Wilson's LTE was printed in the Times, but if I had something of that magnitude, I would take to the paper with the largest circulation that would print it. I'm sure that the Washington "Moonie" Times wouldn't have. The WaPost might have.

So the Times has ONE reporter in Jail. And they printed the original LTE. How again does that put them "elbow" deep in this story, considering its been the lead story of every major news outlet the last three days??