Would You Like Some Cheese With Your Whine?
The New York Times' Washington bureau chief is pouting today. He wasn't invited to join the president's secret Baghdad bash.
Howard Kurtz writes in today's Washington Post:
... Philip Taubman, Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, said that "in this day and age, there should have been a way to take more reporters. People are perfectly capable of maintaining a confidence for security reasons. It's a bad precedent." Once White House officials "decided to do a stealth trip, they bought into a whole series of things that are questionable."
Oh, boo-frigging-hoo, Phil. Tuck in your bottom lip and do what any good New York Times reporter does: fabricate a story.
