Woodward Adds to Plame Scandal

November 16th, 2005
Dan Chou's Story of the Week

I haven’t been keeping up with this investigation as well I usually do, but when I was going through my news RSS feeds, this immediately jumped out at me. With all the talk recently in class about confidential sources and integrity, it initially surprised me that Bob Woodward would have to apologize to executive editor Len Downie that he knew about Plame.

Perhaps the best point this article points out is summarized in this paragraph: The abrupt revelation that Woodward has been sitting on information about the Plame controversy has reignited questions about his unique relationship with The Post while writing books with unparalleled access to high-level officials, and about why Woodward minimized the importance of the Fitzgerald probe in television and radio interviews while hiding his own involvement in the matter.

Woodward can definitely be considered a “celebrity journalist.” So where does this start affecting his journalistic integrity. There haven’t been many celebrity journalists like Woodward with such a peculiar relationship; this may be a time when news outlets begin adding parts regarding celebrity journalism in their code of ethics.

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