Howard Fineman, Newsweek's chief political correspondent, said Monday night in the first program of a Drew University lecture series, that Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward had become a "court stenographer" for the Bush administration.
Standing before a crowd of nearly 300, Fineman, said Woodward went from being an outsider "burning the beltway"with his investigative work in the 1970s Watergate scandal under President Nixon to being, " an official court stenographer of the Bush administration."
"He's a great reporter,"Fineman said of Woodward, "but he's become a great reporter of official history."
Woodward has been heavily criticized ever since it was reported that he had not revealed to his editors that he had information from official sources on the Valerie Plame leak until after a federal grand jury investigation began.
These days, the balance of power has shifted in favor of the government, said Fineman, who also is a contributor to several television news programs.
Yep, the liberal media, they are so tolerant of divergent opinion. Yep, no liberal bias here. Not at all. Nothing to see, move on.