From Newsweek, this quote explaining why this time a book by Bob Woodward about George Bush won’t be on the Bush Administration’s required reading list and why his portrayal of the administration has significantly changed:
In “State of Denial,” Woodward expresses shock and disbelief in interviews with Rumsfeld at his apparent denials and equivocations. Interviewed by Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, Woodward was matter-of-fact about his new, more critical tone. “I found out new things, as is always the case when you replow old ground,” Woodward said. “The bulk of them I discovered this year. I wish I’d had some of them for the earlier books, but I didn’t.”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.