 | Ted White - 2005 - 539 pages
...contrary stuff?" In acknowledging the paper's shortcomings, Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., said, "We were so focused on trying to figure out what the...were questioning the administration's rationale", Downie admitted that was a mistake. "Not enough of those stories were put on the front page," he said... | |
 | Howard Tumber, Frank Webster - 2006 - 194 pages
...war, why do we even worry about all this contrary stuff?' Executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. said: 'We were so focused on trying to figure out what the...were questioning the administration's rationale.' PART II Frontline Journalism WHO THEY ARE AND WHY THEY DO IT 'My newspaper calls me a war correspondent... | |
 | Neil Henry - 2007 - 344 pages
...Post, Aug. 12, 2004, p. Ai. In this article, the Post's executive editor, Leonard Downie, is quoted: "We were so focused on trying to figure out what the...on the front page. That was a mistake on my part." Across the country, "the voices raising questions about the war were lonely ones," Downie said. "We... | |
 | Thomas Conroy, Thomas J. Conroy, Jarice Hanson - 2008 - 186 pages
...war, contrary information was superfluous. In retrospect, said Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., "we were so focused on trying to figure out what the...were put on the front page. That was a mistake on my part."33 The nation's two top newspapers for political intelligence even-handedly and unequivocally... | |
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Jr., was quoted as saying that in retrospect, "we were so focused on trying to figure out what the administration was doing that we were not giving the same play to people who said it wouldn't be a good idea to go to war and were questioning the administration's... 