[oregontim]

Could have released the audio in Feb, doubt it would have changed anything besides being a headline for a day or two.

Just so I understand...you're saying that the noted, celebrated truthteller and revealer of odious, perfidious presidential wrongdoings journalist Bob Woodward would not have had an impact on the public perception of and response to the COVID pandemic had he released Trump's lies to the public thirty seconds after he recorded them?  You think it wouldn't have had an impact on Congress, on the media, on the CDC, on the public?  Particularly since a of immense proportions portion of the liberal Elite, the conservative Elite, the middle-of-the-road Elite, the Media Elite, the Medical Elite and the Political Elite hate his guts and have a massive interest in removing him from office no matter what?

Have to disagree with you.

Good point. I like your use of "elite" here Mick, basically interchangeable with "educated" and I think that's a good way to put it. I think it's a shame that the nation has such a strong current of anti-elite that underlies (among other things) MAGA. There's a lot to be said for education and I bet you're right, had we had this evidence out in the open, educated people from all sides might have been able to exert more pressure on his all-about-me highness.

Another interesting hypothetical.

I like Woodward and respect his work. I was a full-time mainstream journalist during the deep-throat years. Besides which, Robert Redford. So I'm thinking he had to keep the tapes until some agreed-upon date related to the publication of the book, by contract with either publisher or Trump himself. I don't see him letting royalties affect his timing.

[oregontim]

Could have released the audio in Feb, doubt it would have changed anything besides being a headline for a day or two.

Just so I understand...you're saying that the noted, celebrated truthteller and revealer of odious, perfidious presidential wrongdoings journalist Bob Woodward would not have had an impact on the public perception of and response to the COVID pandemic had he released Trump's lies to the public thirty seconds after he recorded them?  You think it wouldn't have had an impact on Congress, on the media, on the CDC, on the public?  Particularly since a of immense proportions portion of the liberal Elite, the conservative Elite, the middle-of-the-road Elite, the Media Elite, the Medical Elite and the Political Elite hate his guts and have a massive interest in removing him from office no matter what?

Have to disagree with you.

Good point. I like your use of "elite" here Mick, basically interchangeable with "educated" and I think that's a good way to put it. I think it's a shame that the nation has such a strong current of anti-elite that underlies (among other things) MAGA. There's a lot to be said for education and I bet you're right, had we had this evidence out in the open, educated people from all sides might have been able to exert more pressure on his all-about-me highness.

Another interesting hypothetical.

I like Woodward and respect his work. I was a full-time mainstream journalist during the deep-throat years. Besides which, Robert Redford. So I'm thinking he had to keep the tapes until some agreed-upon date related to the publication of the book, by contract with either publisher or Trump himself. I don't see him letting royalties affect his timing.