'Vanity Fair' Rips Media 'Conspiracy' in Covering Up Role in Plame Scandal: "And their source was no Deep Throat, not someone with dirt on the government -- the source 'was the government.'
So in the end, he concludes, 'the greatest news organizations in the land had a story about a potential crime that reached as close as you can get to the president himself and they punted, they swallowed it, they self-dealt.' And why did they do it? Well, 'a source is a source who, unrevealed, will continue to be a source.'
Even after the news first emerged last month that Rove had leaked to Cooper, the media still waited days to even ask the White House press secretary about it. It was a story, 'in full view, the media just ignored.' "
So in the end, he concludes, 'the greatest news organizations in the land had a story about a potential crime that reached as close as you can get to the president himself and they punted, they swallowed it, they self-dealt.' And why did they do it? Well, 'a source is a source who, unrevealed, will continue to be a source.'
Even after the news first emerged last month that Rove had leaked to Cooper, the media still waited days to even ask the White House press secretary about it. It was a story, 'in full view, the media just ignored.' "
