Bob Woodward was criticized for not releasing President Trump's COVID-19 comments sooner. In an interview with AP, Woodward said he needed time to ensure that the president's remarks were accurate.
Those were the questions being posed, and, in many cases, answered, by Woodward's critics Wednesday.
In a brief interview with The Associated Press, Woodward said he needed time to ensure that Trump's remarks were accurate."He tells me this, and I'm thinking, 'Wow, that's interesting, but is it true?'" Woodward said."Trump says things that don't check out, right?" "If journalism is a public trust––a trust that has consistently eroded––and Bob Woodward is an associate editor at @washingtonpost, why did Woodward sit on this information while Americans suffered and died?"Some defended Woodward's work. David Maraniss, an investigative journalist and associate editor at The Post,that"the argument that lives might have been saved had [Woodward] reported this earlier is ahistorical.
"The choice isn't between Woodward publishing this revelation in September and, say, March," he wrote onA Twitter debate over ethics in journalism — even the ethics of one of the country's most famous journalists — is likely to peter out against the more pressing concerns about the president's own behavior.
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