Today, The New York Times‘ Brooks Barnes offered a hard-hitting A1 investigative report on how Angelina Jolie manipulates the press, especially how she uses access to her family to further her own agenda.
Writes Mr. Barnes:
Shifting the focus is one of Ms. Jolie’s best maneuvers, magazine editors and publicity executives say. When she Read MoreSay what you will about Richard Nixon, he doesn’t disappoint, even from the grave.
When the story broke identifying W. Mark Felt, the former assistant director of the F.B.I., as Deep Throat, the papers ran this clip from the Watergate tapes, in which Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, discussed the matter:
On May 31, when Vanity Fair broke the biggest media secret of the past 30 years-that Deep Throat, the confidential source to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate break-in, was W. Mark Felt, the No. 2 man at the F.B.I. at the time-there was one more thing Read More
As the impeachment of Bill Clinton heads for a climactic resolution, could it be that I’m the only one who cares that we still haven’t solved the Watergate break-in, the crime that precipitated the last impeachment process? Could it be you’re not aware that nearly three decades after the June 1972 break-in and bugging, after hundreds Read More
