Beat the press: does the White House have a media blacklist? (Gazette).

IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT BOB WOODward doesn't have much trouble getting his calls to the White House returned. If Woodward's latest opus for The Washington Postman interminable eight-parter titled "10 Days in September" co-reported with Dan Balz--is any measure, the Bush administration practically gave Woodward a key to the Oval Office and a desk in the West Wing.

And why not? In the Post's breathless account of the days after 9-11, the president and his staff are always resolute, action is always decisive, and pressure is always met by grace. "The plane was now 60 ...

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