Spin Cycle author Howard Kurtz, March 12. What's creeping into the coverage, the subtext here. I mean, they tried so hard to make the country care about Whitewater. People didn't care. They tried very hard to make the country care about John Huang and Charlie Trie.
People greet it with a collective yawn.
And that is why this is the perfect scandal for the press. Because it's interesting to the people. Some people here clearly hoped the President would offer some kind of apology for past U.S. cooperation with the old apartheid government. But after lamenting the U.S. role in slavery and timidity in halting Rwandan genocide, Mr. Clinton may be through with what some reporters have dubbed his contrition tour. From now on, say his aides, he'll talk about the future, not the past.