Filter vs. Filter
December 10, 2004
When it comes to informing the public, President Bush and his Cabinet have tended to avoid what Bush calls the media "filter." But an embedded reporter in Kuwait this week slipped through the administration’s filter, by planting one of his own questions with a soldier at a Q&A session with Donald Rumsfeld. Reporters had been banned from the event, but Rumsfeld was forced to address an issue he’d previously ignored. Bob and Brooke mull it over.
