More from Brad DeLong and others

From
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/09/state_of_denial.html
“As depicted by Mr. Woodward, this is an administration in which virtually no one will speak truth to power, an administration in which the traditional policy-making process involving methodical analysis and debate is routinely subverted.”

Have we heard similar stories before about Indira Gandhi and others?
What were journalists doing?
From
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/09/why_oh_why_cant_26.html
“First, the most prominent people in the journalism world did more than peddle stuff about Bush's neo-Churchillian grandeur that they knew to be tripe, while they dined out in private on insider gossip about Bush's incompetence, malevolence, mendacity, and disconnection from reality. They also denounced and dismissed those who did say back then what Bob Woodward is saying now--people like Paul Krugman--as shrill.

Second, reporters continue to believe they are under some obligation to put Bush's thumb on the scales. Why... why... thirty minutes ago a correspondent sent me a link: over at Slate right now, John Dickerson—
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As a policy matter, the book undermines Bush's attempts to strengthen the national will for the long and drawn-out fight ahead...”
And so the US has a new bill:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/opinion/28thu1.html?
Any parallels?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/opinion/30harris.html?