Word: fleischered
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...three in the first half—Harvard began to force Penn away from the basket and limited them to just 33 percent shooting for the game. Penn finished just 6-of-31 (19 percent) from behind the three-point line on the night. An interior tandem of Jennifer Fleischer and Monica Naltner, the Crimson’s chief concern prior to tipoff, combined for just 10 points on 4-of-10 shooting. “Our focus was stopping them on the inside,” McCaffery added. “I think we did a good job with...
...trip to Niger and hinting that the Bush team didn't really want to know if the prewar intelligence was accurate or not. It was a serious charge and, to the Bush team, an open declaration of war. The next day, Libby told then White House press secretary Ari Fleischer that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and added that that was a fact not widely known--dropping, perhaps, an invitation to Fleischer to leak it to a friendly reporter. The next day, Libby met again with Judith Miller, and they talked again of Wilson and his wife. Libby...
...UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE Who, asked to look into the Niger trip, told Libby on June 12 about the identity of Wilson's wife ? LIBBY'S CIA BRIEFER Who discussed Joseph and Valerie Wilson and the Niger trip with Libby on June 14 ? PRESS SECRETARY ARI FLEISCHER Who learned from Libby over lunch on July 7 about the identity of Wilson's wife...
...Enough. The examples can drive the fever to dangerous heights. The point is not that all of Fleischer's facts are wrong, it's that he has too many groaners in a book that sighs: "reporters sometimes want so badly to believe something is true that they ignore facts to the contrary." Or a book that tut-tuts: "the news industry typically doesn't work in such a nuanced, more accurate...
...Fleischer raises important points, but the sloppy execution ruins any chance he might have at convincing those in the media to mend their ways...