{"id":2508,"date":"2004-09-13T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T14:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2508.html"},"modified":"2004-09-13T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T14:30:20","slug":"novak-wants-iotheri-journalists-to-reveal-secret-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/novak-wants-iotheri-journalists-to-reveal-secret-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak wants <i>other<\/i> journalists to reveal secret sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to follow up on an item <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2004_09_05_atrios_archive.html#109484860695125535\">Atrios raised<\/a> the other day, please note <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0409\/10\/cf.00.html\">Bob Novak&#8217;s comments<\/a> on CNN on Friday, when he urged 60 Minutes journalists to reveal their private, confidential sources. The context was a discussion over the National Guard documents that have surfaced and offer additional evidence that the president failed to meet his military obligations during Vietnam.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;CBS, which broke the story, should reveal where it got the documents, to be blunt, who forged these documents&#8230;. [A]ll CBS has to say is where do these documents come from.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CBS, I should note, continues to stand behind the legitimacy of the Guard documents. But forget that minor detail for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Novak, who identified an undercover CIA agent&#8217;s identity &#8212; after the CIA asked him not to &#8212; wants to talk about other reporters&#8217; responsibility to divulge confidential sources?<\/p>\n<p>Can someone explain to me how this man even has a job in professional journalism? Partisan hack? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/001967.html\">Check<\/a>. Frequently wrong? <a href=\"http:\/\/gadflyer.com\/flytrap\/index.php?Week=200428#456\">Check<\/a>. Conflict-of-interest ethics problems? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/30\/business\/media\/30novak.html\">Check<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, Bob Novak collects paychecks from some of the most respected news outlets in the nation. It defies comprehension.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<i>Update<\/i>: Not content with his lunacy on Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0409\/11\/cg.00.html\">Novak repeated<\/a> this line of attack on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HUNT: Robert Novak, you&#8217;re saying CBS should reveal its source?<\/p>\n<p>NOVAK: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>HUNT: You do? You think reports ought to reveal sources?<\/p>\n<p>NOVAK: No, no. Wait a minute.<\/p>\n<p>HUNT: I&#8217;m just asking.<\/p>\n<p>NOVAK: I&#8217;m just saying in that case.<\/p>\n<p>HUNT: Oh.<\/p>\n<p>NOVAK: I think &#8212; I think it&#8217;s very important. If this is a phony document, the American &#8212; the people should know about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Suspicious documents? Very important. Undercover CIA agents? No biggie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to follow up on an item Atrios raised the other day, please note Bob Novak&#8217;s comments on CNN on Friday, when he urged 60 Minutes journalists to reveal their private, confidential sources. The context was a discussion over the National Guard documents that have surfaced and offer additional evidence that the president failed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}