Posts Tagged ‘Bob Woodward’
John Feinstein, R.I.P.
NOTE: My longtime friend and fabled sportswriter John Feinstein died suddenly on March 13 of an apparent heart attack. I wrote this appreciation for the Washington Independent Review of Books.…
Read MoreWill The Washington Post Die in Darkness?
“All the President’s Men” was on TCM the other night. Sadly, ironically, that title would now have to include Jeff Bezos. His latest turn toward the right, informing staff that…
Read MoreRecalling Watergate and “Woodstein” after 50 years
June 17, 1972 was not Dec. 7, 1941, nor was it Sept. 11, 2001, or Jan. 6, 2021. But it remains a date that will live in infamy, and in…
Read MoreChasing Carl Bernstein
Journalists of my generation and acquaintance are having a memoir moment. Peter Osnos, who covered Prince George’s County, Md. for the Washington Post before I did and went on to…
Read MoreRecalling “Jimmy’s World” at the Washington Post
Remarkably, it’s been 40 years since fabulist Janet Cooke was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a story headlined “Jimmy’s World,” about an eight-year old heroin addict who did not exist.…
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