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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Sep 2020

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      1. Make no mistake: the taped comments Trump made to Woodward in February & March are very damaging to Trump. But as so often in Trump era, elite norms have given Trump an out: it's fair to ask why, given import of Trump's words, Woodward was silent for months. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1304042651147284480 …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Sep 2020

      2. One oft-made defense of Woodward is that he was acting as an "author" and not a "journalist." But that hardly makes sense since his books are themselves a form of journalism. And journalism carries ethical obligations.pic.twitter.com/3wKJGSwz0y

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Sep 2020

      3. To reframe: what is Bob Woodward? He himself says he's a kind of historian -- writing the second draft of history after daily newspaper writers do the first draft. But if he's a historian it's a very narrow sort: a court chronicler.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Sep 2020

      4. As a court chronicler Woodward is following in the footsteps of Sima Qian, Suetonius, Claremont & the duc de Saint-Simon, writing books that are long on gossip & palace intrigue & short on analysis.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Sep 2020

      5. In a brilliant 1996 dissection of Woodward, Joan Didion noted, “Mr. Woodward’s rather eerie aversion to engaging the ramifications of what people say to him" and the “disinclination of Mr. Woodward’s to exert cognitive energy on what he is told.”

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Sep 2020

      6. Some more thoughts on how Woodward uncovered a new scandal but himself became part of the scandal.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/woodward-scoop-trump-coronavirus/ …

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        1. Nick‏ @getyrtrouserson 11 Sep 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          His ideal reader -- his intended reader, his most attentive reader -- is the day-to-day insider/access journalist. His books allow those reporters to compare notes, to cross-reference, to reset their obligations to sources.

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        1. David Fyhrie‏ @CaliFury 11 Sep 2020
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          Without Woodward, we wouldn't know anything about this. Concentrate on the "this" instead of pursing your lips and wagging fingers. "Oh noes! The bad reporter used a PURPLE PEN to tell me about the genocide! Can you believe it! A PURPLE PEN! I can't stand it! PURPLE!"

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        2. Stephen Murphy‏ @stevemur67 11 Sep 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          If Woodward has released trumps comments in March 2020, they would have been met with the same inertia + hand wringing defences as today. Woodward is not the problem. The American political system has been proven incapable of dealing with a rogue, incompetent, lawless president.

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        3. joe positive‏ @joe_positive 11 Sep 2020
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          if it saved even one life, that would have been enough.

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        1. Jake + the derg  🎨 ⚖️ 💛 🐝‏ @JakeReif 11 Sep 2020
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          It’s astonishing that you write on Woodward like you’re not doing the exact same thing regurgitating the same “Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk” argument because you’ve decided that getting Trump re-elected is in your own career interests.

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        1. GrassRootsGuy‏ @GrassRootsGuy 11 Sep 2020
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          I take it you would rather not have the tapes, report and interpretation at all. Be grateful -30-

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        1. Michele Kelly‏ @MkellyDc 11 Sep 2020
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          Trump used Woodward to give himself yet another out or plausible excuse for governing so poorly. That is so ironic, given Woodward's reputation as an investigative journalist. Fact that he calls himself an historian now is irrelevant. It was Trump!, for crying out loud.

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        1. Hamish Buchanan‏ @HamishBuchanan1 11 Sep 2020
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          “gossip-mongering helps defuse scandals” This is the evil genius of the reality TV context, not just in his personal background but in US culture generally: everything is just so much gossip, all gravitas is trivialized. “Who can say?” There is no objective reference point.

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