CNN: "If the VP shot a man in the forest, would we hear about it?"

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Interesting article about how news about the WH is reported - or not.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/14/mccaughan.cheney/index.html

McCaughan: Behind the scenes on the Cheney story

By Tim McCaughan
CNN Senior White House Producer

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- If the vice president shot a man in the forest, would we hear about it?

Apparently a day later.

Well, it was more like a field than a forest, but you get the point.

Last Saturday, while out hunting quail, Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot one of his hunting partners. The victim was Harry Whittington, a prominent lawyer and Cheney friend from Austin, Texas.

From a witness account, Whittington had shot a bird, gone to retrieve his kill and had not announced his returning presence to Cheney and others.....