Robert W. Whitlow

Robert W. Whitlow is a media critic, and educator, and free-lance writer.

It’s official: Murray Waas is the new black. Bob Woodward is out like wing-tipped shoes. Jay Rosen at PressThink picks up the thread that Dan Froomkin has been pushing for a few weeks now, that Waas is writing the hottest stuff on the hottest story in Washington: Part of what remains to be uncovered is how Woodward was played by the Bush team, and what they thought they were doing by leaking,” Rosen writes.

Waas is “Woodward Now”: “By Woodward Now I mean the reporter who is actually doing what Woodward once had a reputation for doing: finding, tracking the biggest story in town.” Murray Waas, like many other of the most tenacious journalists in the city, came out of Jack Anderson‘s shop. As Rosen explains, “ Murray Waas told us something about his own approach. ‘The public has pushed back against insider, access journalism– whether practiced by Bob Woodward, or Robert Novak,’ he wrote. Now Rosen says that Woodward could get back in the game. Until then, stay tuned to Murray Waas.,