Bogosian received unprecedented access to the Oval Office and Lockhart's office over Sept. 13-15, a period that included a visit by India's prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Bogosian, a three-time Emmy winner, interviewed all the living presidents and vice presidents except Reagan and Clinton. It occurred to me that something was wrong with the filter. The information coming through wasn't true, wasn't accurate and fair. Not that Bogosian lacks respects for reporters.
Journalism is a craft.
It's something that needs to be learned to do well. When Clinton entered office in 1993, there were 50 Web sites, the film says. By 2000, there were 25 million. In contrast with the scores of reporters and photographers who covered Clinton's meeting with Vajpayee, the only coverage of President Kennedy's meeting with India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, four decades earlier was shot on silent film on wind-up cameras. And the news expands to fit the time.