Bob Woodward Throws an Interception

By now, we all know, or should know, the strengths and weaknesses of Bob Woodward. As an old-fashioned beat reporter and player of the Washington access game, he has few, if any, equals. Woodward’s beat is the capital’s establishment. Ever since he and Carl Bernstein shot to fame with their Watergate reporting, he’s been trooping in and out of the offices of senior officials, writing down (and presumably taping) what they say, and using his notes as the basis for journalistic narratives that are, by turns, revelatory, informative, incomplete, infuriating, and downright misleading. But whatever you think of Woodward’s methods, his outpourings can rarely be ignored. That’s what makes him Woodward.

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