Bob Woodward: ”Get your ass out of the chair”

22. September 2009 | Von Ulrike Langer | Kategorie: Journalismus, Neu

Bob Woodward erzählt in diesem Video die Geschichte, wie er 1971 als junger Reporter bei der Washington Post um Haaresbreite einer Gegendarstellung auf der Titelseite entging. Seine Titelgeschichte über die Schließung eines Hotelcafes wegen schwerwiegender Verstöße gegen Hygienevorschriften lag schon beim Chefredakteur, als der sagte: ”Das Hotel ist nur zwei Blocks entfernt. Sind Sie da gewesen? Und als Woodward verneinte: ”Dann bewegen Sie Ihren Hintern vom Stuhl!” (Für die Pointe bitte ins Video klicken).

Woodwards drei Forderungen an den investigativen Journalismus:

1. Je mehr verschiedene Quellen desto besser.

2.  Dokumentation veröffentlichen: ”Ich kenne kaum eine große Geschichte, die nicht noch besser geworden wäre, wenn die Zeitung die Dokumentation der Recherche veröffentlicht hätte.”

3. Rausgehen und mit den Menschen reden.

via Guy Kawasaki


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  • http://blog.artundweise.de Nicole Haase

    Schöne Geschichte – gut erzählt.
    Und danke, dass die Pointe nicht schon in der Einleitung auftaucht!

  • Dr. H.R. Goetting

    Bob Woodward kann sich bei mir um eine Lehrstelle bewerben!

    Yes, my Dear, here is a summary about worldwide C.I.A. university espionage!

    “University Spy – A True Story”

    The C.I.A.’s covert action arm has ended up as America‘s extra-curricular Education Ministry and universities around the world have little recourse!

    Behavioral science teaches that small changes in a heterosexual man’s sex-life can have large and unsavory effects on keeping horrific secrets!

    These all-out investigative interviews will plunge you, the reader, into the murk of the abnormal psychology and mind boggling career of W. B. Paterson from hell-bent taxi driver to hysterical C.I.A. Chief-of-university-spies!

    Malicious Chief W. B. Paterson is the inheritor of American multi-billion dollar conglomerate Paterson Inc., a globally operating university supplier which doubles as a C.I.A. espionage contractor. Never, ever trust an American!

    This emotional zeitgeist-book is scripted on man-to-man pillow interviews with the coarse Chief Walt Blair Paterson, a source of untreated and disease-laden sewer language and behavior, stranger than fiction. The fat-cat attacks academics with racial and religious hate-speech as if suffering from multiple mental illnesses!

    Not even my diplomatic skills were good enough to put an end to his temper tantrums. Let‘s go for an audio-visit to one of the Chief’s great moments – and I promise he never used more lofty cross-references: “University people are late-term abortions who crawl out of classrooms“, he screamed, grandly, with all the subtleties of a rhino!

    As is becoming for an objective reporter, I use the method of dramatizing and narrating each authentic quotation from the Chief, reflecting the ugly history of Paterson Inc. and America – the Can’t Do Nation!

    The disgusting behind-the-scenes tales are based on ‘embedded’ rent-boy reporting at its best, serving up from the bedside the whole truth about the C.I.A.’s university espionage brigades. It’s scary, very scary!

    The unvarnished truth was spilled while the Chief wobbled back and forward like a drunken tip-over doll – his insufferable lips loosened by gallons of whisky!

    The juicy revelations of the Chief going anal are off the record; Walt Blair Paterson’s real name, gonzo company, position and location were changed and rendered anonymous – to protect my ’deep-throat’ for legal reasons!

    Paranoid and violent U.S. university espionage is closely related to institutional brutality. Haunting American abuse of power has reached a critical mass and is the central theme of this book. Will it come to the point that battered students call for ’social unrest’ at beleaguered universities in opposition to the academic waterboarding by Paterson Inc.?

    Every Paterson Inc. teaching tool sold at universities bears the chill of a torture whip in the face of a kidnapped victim in a secret C.I.A. jail anywhere around the world. Saddam‘s torture chambers were multiplied, put under new U.S. management and staffed with perverted, sex-starved male and female Americans!

    C.I.A. espionage contractors such as Paterson Inc. are NOT SUBJECT to the Freedom of Information Act!

    An obscure law allows the C.I.A. to block all congressional and public inquiries into the secret files, the budget, the number of agents and the entire power structure of the Pater$on Shadow Company, the recipient of vast amounts of U.S. government money!

    Who are the Chief’s unpredictable Washington masters? Their names read probably like a Who is Who of instable American corporate and political power. The world’s biggest borrower is busy scrounging around the earth for more billions of dollars. America will go down in history as the country that breeds the biggest rats!

    Who are the shameless American ’scholars’ and at which benighted U.S. universities do they work, these dim-wits who helped dreadful C.I.A. & Paterson to conceptualize the hellish ‘intellectual’ framework for global university espionage?

    If the burly men from beastly Paterson Inc. tilted the global academic playing field in favor of U.S. scientists, and if this helps explain America’s unparalleled share of Nobel prices during that curiously energetic U.S. ’research’ period over the past five decades, synchronized with the C.I.A.’s university espionage history, then so be it!

    All this I took in like a spy, interrupted only by the emasculated Chief’s demonstrations of affection and while his ungentlemanly hands fondled among my pink boxer-shorts!

    This compelling study shows Paterson Inc. is unfit as a university supplier! America’s university espionage is on trial. The undeclared U.S. doctrine of large-scale targeted research theft has to be stopped with a cool ’nyet’!

    As a spot of shit the ugly bedside interviews with the talkative Chief are positioned to hit the proverbial fan to spread his vulgar whispers fast and far!

    Yours, Truly
    Dr. H.R. Goetting

    P.S.: To my apolitical documentary on university espionage let me say this: As an ’embedded’ citizen journalist maintaining strict neutrality about the wisdom of American research theft, I have neither engaged in cynical second guessing nor diplomatic back-stabbing about the great free U.S. science-ride staffed with American special agents. Otherwise C.I.A. contractor Paterson Inc. will be drawn into an ideological debate by intellectuals, creating awful media coverage, which is unbecoming for the U.S. spy merchant masking its bigotry!

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