Fourth Estate in Fifth Dimension

The revered --- dare we say "worshipped?" --- Bob Woodward of the Washington Post has revealed that he heard about Valerie Plame about a month before Scooter Libby allegedly provided her name to Judith Miller -- the Joan d'Arc of the New York Times. And Bobby has apologized to his editors at the Post for not informing them sooner. Kinda slipped his mind. Friends and neighbors, if you are trusting in the "news" media you must know that Bobby and his ilk (the Washington royalty of the media set) hobnob quite frequently and freely with the very folk they write stories about --- the government royalty. What's a little cocktails, dinner, and chit-chat amongst friends? In my mind it calls into question the idea of impartiality, of being the watchdogs of government for "the people." And it ain't the news business, folks. As they said in "The Godfather," it's just business.