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Apparently, one of the requirements for working as a reporter at the Washington Post<\/i> is that you must remain as out of touch as possible with anything that matters.<\/p>\nApparently, one of the requirements for working as a reporter at the Washington Post<\/i> is that you must remain as out of touch as possible with anything that matters.<\/p>\n
According to ThinkProgress today<\/a>, Watergate’s investigative genius, Bob Woodward, smartly meets the requirements…<\/p>\n How pervasive is “caging”? <\/strong><\/p>\n Bob Woodward and Jeff Leen: We publish what we can find and document. Many times over the years government authorities have pursued the information we have dug up and launched their own investigations. But we’re trying to serve the readers, and we do not act as police or prosecutors. And please send us an e-mail explaing [sic<\/em>] what “caging” is.<\/strong><\/div>\n Woodward and Leen aren’t the only Washington Post reporters who are clueless about caging. In a washingtonpost.com online chat with congressional reporter Jonathan Weisman in May, a questioner asked “why Congress didn’t jump on Monica Goodling’s testimony about caging.” Weisman’s response: “So what is this caging thing?<\/a>”<\/p>\n So for all those Washington Post reporters out there, let’s go over the facts again…<\/p><\/div>\n Check out TP for those facts<\/a> (as if you<\/i> need them), and how you can contact Woodward, and the rest of the clueless WaPo<\/i> gang to give the poor folks some help on this very very (apparently) obscure topic.<\/p>\n BRAD BLOG’s<\/a> own dozens and dozens of articles — apparently most of them just too<\/i> “exclusive” — on the topic, are posted right here<\/a> in reverse chronological order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apparently, one of the requirements for working as a reporter at the Washington Post is that you must remain as out of touch as possible with anything that matters. According to ThinkProgress today, Watergate’s investigative genius, Bob Woodward, smartly meets the requirements… Earlier this week, Washington Post investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Jeff Leen hosted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,280,243,53],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-vote-caging","category-voter-registration","category-washington-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Earlier this week, Washington Post investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Jeff Leen hosted an online chat<\/a> at washingtonpost.com. One of the participants asked Woodward and Leen how pervasive the voter suppression tactic known as “caging” is. The investigative reporters had no idea what it was:<\/p>\nWashington, D.C.: Don’t you have a duty to report criminal activity to the appropriate authorities? <\/p>\n