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This journalistic ethic, the "if it's there we print it" attitude that Woodward crows so feistily, is mere bravado. In the first place, the book could conceivably hurt the court's ability to enforce its will in some important cases. Although the authors are quick to point out that they stayed away from "contemporaneous" cases, clearly the reasoning used in reaching one busing decision might affect the next such case, and it takes very little to fan the flames of anti-busing sentiment in this country. To let the chips always fall where they may probably won't hurt...
With 70 years of tradition, a $350,000 advance, and the Watergate investigation behind them, one expected a lot of Woodward and sidekick Scott Armstrong when they tackled the Supreme Court. One expected more than...
...Woodward and Armstrong's caricature of William O. Douglas is another example. They describe his return to the Court...
Many have already criticized the book's documentation. Woodward, however, proved his reliability during Watergate, when a few mistakes on his part could have saved Nixon. Now he cashes in the chips, and it seem reasonable to believe that the "eight file drawers" of documents and "more than 200" sources really add up to what he reports. All the relevations are believable, even predictable, but why print them? Justice Potter Stewart said in a 1964 decision that he could not define pornography. "But I know it when I see it," his decision concludes. Since the Constitution does little to outline...
...curb to the lobby in a frantic attempt to collect anything possibly significant. During a pre-Christmas Harvard appearance, the authors said a journalist's job was simply to find out and print whatever he could. "And let the chips fall where they may?" one questioner demanded. "Yeah," Woodward answered, leaning back in his chair. "You can't as a journalist sit there and say what are the effects of this going to be?"' he continued. Earlier, in a mid-morning press conference, he was asked how the court could improve. "Someone else asked me that question, and I didn...