from bn.com
Something rang a bell about today's New York Times front page story reporting on Bob Woodward's book, "State Of Denial," which the NYT scooped up before Woodward's own Washington Post simply by buying a copy. Why did that sound so familiar? Oh, that's right: Because the exact same thing happened last year. On July 1, 2005, I wrote at FishbowlNY:
Today the Washington Post got totally scooped - again - on Deep Throat, this time by USA Today which scored a copy of Woodward's rushed-to-print Deep Throat memoir, "The Secret Man" and happily dishes its now-semi-secret details. The book is - was - set for release on July 6th. The worst part: USA Today didn't even get it by subterfuge or cool cloak-and-dagger secret book-getting ways. They bought it, at a bookstore Fairfax County, Va., that put it on sale early.
This year, the NYT's Julie Bosman did the exact same thing: She picked up a copy, and paid retail, no less — small price to pay for delivering a red-hot front-page story.
That was the last time Woodward got scooped on Woodward. If memory serves, there was some sort of other big scoop that happened under Woodward's nose....oh, right.
