Newspapers dance around Obama's War
Oh what late-night shenanigans there must have been between America's two great newspapers last night.
The journalistic world has been on tenterhooks awaiting the book Obama's War from Bob Woodward, the Watergate veteran, who over the years has had superb access to all the main players in several presidents' administrations and has now emerged with a scathing portrait.
Politico has an of how he gets the scoops.
But the New York Times cheekily got hold of a copy of the book by Woodward, who just happens to be an editor of the Washington Post.
The Times's story was published online around 2200 local time. About an hour and a half later, it had been pulled.
Then the Post published its own less exciting but on the book.
At 0011 the reappeared with a few of the more interesting quotes absent.
All very "inside the Beltway" I know - and a field day for lawyers - and a big plug for the book.
More later on the importance or otherwise of the revelations.
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