As the Press Turns

Tomasky, Michael, The Nation

Quick, pinch me--am I still living in the same country? Reading and watching the same media? This "Bob Woodward" fellow who co-wrote a tough piece in the May 18 Washington Post demonstrating that the now-famous August 6 presidential daily briefing, contrary to Administration officials' claims about its contents, actually carried the heading "Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S."--is this the same Bob Woodward who co-wrote the Post's infamous "Ten Days in September" series earlier this year, the ur-document of George W. Bush's Churchillization? And this "Michael Isikoff," sharing a byline on the eye-opening May 27 Newsweek cover story that shreds the Administration's "we did everything …

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Publication information: Article title: As the Press Turns. Contributors: Tomasky, Michael - Author. Magazine title: The Nation. Volume: 274. Issue: 22 Publication date: June 10, 2002. Page number: 5. © 1999 The Nation Company L.P. COPYRIGHT 2002 Gale Group.

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