Ex-Cheney aide details media tactics...

2007/1


By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer Sat Jan 27, 10:05 PM ET

WASHINGTON - A smorgasbord of Washington insider details has emerged during the perjury trial of the vice president‘s former chief of staff.

For example, when Dick Cheney really needed friends in the news media, his staff was short of phone numbers.

The uses of leaks and exclusives. When to let one‘s name be used and when to hide in anonymity. Which news medium was seen as more susceptible to control and what timing was most propitious. All candidly described. Even the rating of certain journalists as friends to favor and critics to shun — a faint echo of the enemies list drawn up in Richard Nixon ‘s White House more than 30 years ago...

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