Devastating piece by Arianna...precise... still..the NY Times...

keeps hoping it will all fade away, accepting absolutely no responsibility nor offering any real explanation of the facts...Typical Bush owned and run media.

"So now we can add Viveca Novak to the growing list of journalistic sinners granted absolution by their employers. Allowed to take a leave of absence, she will, according to her editor, await a "fuller discussion."

What is there to discuss?

She gave confidential information to Karl Rove's lawyer and then failed to tell her editor about it for over a year (the exact date can't be determined because she didn't bother to take notes and wrote no story based on her Luskin "reporting"). She didn't even tell her editors after she had spent two hours being interviewed by Pat Fitzgerald -- only fessing up two days after learning that she would have to repeat her testimony under oath. And to top it off, while all this was going on, she continued to report on the case -- acting as if she had no clue why Rove had, at the last minute, avoided being indicted.

Time magazine spent millions of dollars to protect a confidence. Matt Cooper had his bags packed and was ready to head off to jail to do the same. Novak broke the confidence for the price of a cocktail -- blurting it out to her buddy like a drunken sailor.

And after all that, she is put on leave? Why not a big wet kiss and a hefty Christmas bonus to go along with it?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/plamegate-and-the-press-_b_12228.html

There is so much to keep up with .. and I can't do it all .. I'm tired.

So is Viveca related to "the" Novak?

And is it treason to trade one's country for cocktail (sex involved I assume)?

that Novak is not related to Novak. :P I heard someone on TV or radio say, "of no relation to Bob Novak."

Edit: My :P didn't work

She's not a vampire.

Maybe this is her star-shine moment.

But I do love Arianna:

The Plamegate investigation has exposed the ugly underbelly of modern, big-time journalism: the rampant insiderism, the special treatment afforded superstar reporters, the oh-so-cozy relationship between those in power and those theoretically tasked with covering them, the lack of newsroom checks and balances, the acceptance of transgressions with barely a whimper.

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