But certainly if he thought that was a bad statement, he would have reported it because he thinks that, you know, you don’t want to have anybody that is going to suffer medically because of some fact, and he didn’t report it because he didn’t think it was bad. But I thought it would be interesting to talk to him for a period of calls.
Bob Woodward is somebody that I respect just from hearing the name for many, many years - not knowing too much about his work, and not caring about his work. What I said is we have to be calm, we can’t be panicked. Reporter: “Why did you lie to the American people, and why should we trust what you have to say now?” “Such a terrible question, and the phraseology - I didn’t lie. He graduated from Yale University in 1965 and served five years as a communications officer in the United States Navy before beginning his journalism career at the Montgomery County (Maryland) Sentinel, where he was a reporter for one year before joining the Post.Transcript ‘I Didn’t Lie,’ Trump Claims on Downplaying Coronavirus Threat During a news conference, President Trump defended his interviews with the veteran journalist Bob Woodward. In 2018 David Von Drehle wrote, “What White did for presidential campaigns, Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward has done for multiple West Wing administrations – in addition to the Supreme Court, the Pentagon, the CIA and the Federal Reserve.” Gene Roberts, the former managing editor of The New York Times, has called the Woodward-Bernstein Watergate coverage, “maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time.” In listing the all-time 100 best non-fiction books, Time Magazine has called All the President’s Men, by Bernstein and Woodward, “Perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history.” In 2014, Robert Gates, former director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense, said that he wished he’d recruited Woodward into the CIA, saying of Woodward, “He has an extraordinary ability to get otherwise responsible adults to spill guts to him.his ability to get people to talk about stuff they shouldn’t be talking about is just extraordinary and may be unique.” He may be the best reporter of all time.” He has written books on eight of the most recent presidents, from Nixon to Obama.īob Schieffer of CBS News has said, “Woodward has established himself as the best reporter of our time.
Twelve of those have been #1 national bestsellers. He has authored or coauthored 18 books, all of which have been national non-fiction bestsellers.
He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first in 1973 for the coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, and second in 2003 as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Bob Woodward is an associate editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1971.
0 kommentar(er)
