A lot of what we reporters do is awfully easy. What guys like Bob Woodward and Seymour Hersh do is awfully hard — digging out facts, linking them together, exposing things powerful people don’t want exposed. Felicity Barringer has a great piece in today’s NYT on what Bob and Sy, two old rivals from the ’70s and two of the greatest journalists of the last century, are doing in the wake of 9/11.
(Woodward, of course, is most famous for breaking Watergate. Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre, among other things. I’ll always root for Hersh over Woodward, if only because of what you can tell about them from this one great Barringer paragraph: “Those describing the 64-year-old Mr. Hersh dip into the basket of adjectives usually applied to small dogs