likely, if there s a coup in iraq, an iraqi general takes over or continues what s going on right now like a sideways you know smattering of terrorists day in and day out, we d be lucky if there are two or three american reporters in baghdad to cover the story. anytime in the next year. because of the cost involved, because of the lack of interest, all these things? your first answer is the most important answer. it s expensive. you will see most of the american media with probably the exception of the washington post and the new york times mostly have iraqi reporters covering for american journalism. you would think that journalists would dwell more on this war even though it s a symbolic ending and all of that because the toll that it took on our business, had you journalists killed like you have bloom and kelly and others who were wounded. yet, i think you can make a case we turned the page a couple years ago. there s a case to be made that the media is following the
new guidelines, new social media. if there s anything i did learn from this, it s as much as they want you to be personable now in the newsroom, as much as they want you to show something of yourself through a twitter account, through i used to do these video columns for the post, they wanted to show some of my personality. a lot of people were taking me serious. they were taking the washington post serious. and if i could take myself that seriously, i wouldn t have had the problem. and that to me was the best lesson. i know you take media ethicses seriously because you ve been on this program talking about. i never thought i would be talking about myself this problem. have you no doubt this cost you a chunk of your credibility? i think so. you could write every story under the sun and you covet all my stories and i would challenge someone to find a factual inaccuracy done with any malice or anything. and there would be few.
our goal is to put our content in front of as many people as possible. evan smith, thanks very much for joining us from austin. thanks, howard. and coming up in the second part of reliable sources, washington post sports writer mike wise gets sidelined for a bogus scoop posted on twitter. what explains such a dumb move? he ll be in the hot seat. president obama responds to the muslim misinformation about him with brian williams but is he fueling the story? rick stengel joins us. plus a rupert murdoch tabloid hacking the british royals and many others and offering big bucks for dirt on glenn beck in our media monitor.
what you would find but it didn t matter. one thing can undo it for you. one thing that took you 15 seconds to type. 15 seconds to type and 19 to 20 years is undone like that. so i m going to find a way to get it back. mike wise, would have been very easy to duck this interview. thanks very much for coming in. i appreciate you at least getting the story out there and talking about it. thanks howard. the nfl has reduced ben roethlisberger s suspension to four games. so even the fake scoop turned out to be wrong. time magazine calls president obama mr. unpopular, would this be the same time magazine that loved the guy during the campaign? managing editor rick stengel in a moment. on the most demandik in the world. with us, in spirit, was every great car that we d ever competed with. the bmw m5. and the mercedes-benz e63. for it was their amazing abilities that pushed us to refine, improve and, ultimately, develop the world s fastest production sedan.
denigrated the speech while liberal commentators didn t much like it either but they re still mad at george bush. some of us here on the factor were discussing why the president even bothered. why was he so boring? because it s not a bus by berkeley production with dancing girls. this speech was really in terms of partisan stuff, and how this war was started in terms of what the bush administration did to get us in this war, it was incredibly restrained even more than restrained. it was remarkably generous. everything about it was small. ludicrous. the presentation itself, i objected to the pictures of his kids in the background. thank you, mr. bush, for starting to withdraw those troops lucky enough not to die in your false war. i found this one perplexing. i didn t quite understand what the point was. then the story seemed to varnish. the collective judgment, iraq is yesterday s news despite the 50,000 american troops still station there had. what explains this lack o