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Woodward's carryings-on have undercut trust for the fourth estate (already at a low ebb thanks to the Judith Miller and the New York Times), but I am dismayed at how his leading-light journalistic colleagues like Sidney Blumenthal and Daniel Shorr (of NPR) continue to go to awkward lengths to minimize the opprobrium that Woodward deserves. Cronyism impresses no better in the field of journalism than it does in public service.
Blumenthal's understatement of what Woodward has done (credulous vs. complicit, as another reader observed) is inaccurate, pure and simple.
If Judith Miller was (properly) forced out, then it's only fair that Woodward be inveighed against and forced out too. This is a question of fairness and balance, and the editors at Salon should push Blumenthal harder to tell the truth.
