His reporting is almost irrelevant to the rest of the country. It was stupefyingly dull and almost completely devoid of meaning for anyone outside official Washington. Now that was a real contribution to our understanding of the American political system. But so has the press.
Policies are public, so are pardons and foreign policies.
Woodward is not alone. His paper, the Washington Post, played a major role in giving the nation a year of Monica. Michael Isikoff's keyhole journalism garnered various journalism awards, but never linked President Clinton's dismaying personal behavior with his public responsibilities. Indeed it wasn't. Ill. J ake Tapper is correct to focus on the accuracy of Bob Woodward's work.